Greg Egan Quotes

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• Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first,…
• No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
• It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for…
• Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
• On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
• Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
• Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led…
• No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't…
• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat…
• You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of…
• Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of…
• I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems…
• I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which…
• I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
• Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
• A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who…
• Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
• I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
• I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

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