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Richard K. Morgan

(1965) Writer

116 quotes in 445 categories

Pull on new flesh like borrowed gloves, and you may burn your fingers, writes Richard K. Morgan. He jokes that patriotism can hide ignorance, describes books as warm leather that smells, and reminds readers to ask who pays the cost of any agenda. He also compares game work’s meetings to the solitude of novel writing.

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Richard K. Morgan is a writer, best known for Altered Carbon. Vol. 1.

Quick Facts About Richard K. Morgan

Born: September 24, 1965
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Altered Carbon. Vol. 1

About Richard K. Morgan

His 2003 novel Altered Carbon won the Philip K. Dick Award and was later turned into a Netflix series in 2018. The third book in his series, Market Forces, earned the John W. Campbell Award in 2005. In 2008 his novel Thirteen received the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Morgan writes novels, short stories and graphic novels in the science‑fiction and fantasy genres.

Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

“Make it personal.”

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“The past is relevant only as data.”

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Data

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“Well, fuck them. Make it personal.”

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“Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand," Ringil said quietly.”

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“You smoke?” “Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?”

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Cancer

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“Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.”

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God

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“His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's.”

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“The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...”

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Noir

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“I’m Kristin Ortega, Organic Damage Division. Bancroft was my case.”

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“Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.”

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Arse

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'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

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“who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.”

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Metaphor

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I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation…

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Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it.…

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Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

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Behavior

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Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the…

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Books

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The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

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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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Authors

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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 sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and…

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Habits

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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…

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Justice

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For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -…

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Bedtime

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The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply…

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“War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you…

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Bad relationship

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“No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to…

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Life

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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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Communication

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With a game, you're only one part of a team, and what emerges at launch is very much the culmination of the…

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“ No one in that city understands, Gil, because it doesn’t matter to them anymore. They’ve never learned to fear the steel…

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Learning

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“ ...you and I will be dust and half-remembered tales before they even start to build that city. But it will come,…

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Legend

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“What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me.…

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Illusion

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“Kovacs to a female believer in New Revelation: "..I’m calling you a gutless betrayer of your sex. I can see your husband’s…

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Day by day

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“You wouldn’t have to be insane to do these things. You’d just have to have a goal and be determined to attain…

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Goals

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“You know God does not manifest Himself,” Halgan shouted. “That is also heresy. The Revelation is not corporeal. You know this. Why…

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Most women I've ever met either already have or at some point want kids, but there are still significant numbers who don't,…

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Choice

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“Angels and demons, heaven and hell, God, morality, law and language. It’s all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality…

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Angels and demons

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I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002.

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If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

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Angry

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Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

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Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

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Authors

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“People are sheep, Ringil raged. Moronic fucking sheep.”

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