Writer Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

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Richard K. Morgan’s reflections on the writer’s craft arrive in nine terse statements, echoing his hard‑boiled narrative style. The set offers a brief, gritty glimpse into how he views storytelling as a tool for confronting darkness.

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As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

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I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

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There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need…

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I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

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Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more…

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I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children…

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As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in…

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“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to…

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I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual…

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“Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.”

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The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

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“These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.”

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As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out…

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“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.…

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“In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If…

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“... it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them.…

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I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the…

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“The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see…

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“Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the…

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