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• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's…
• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
• I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at…
• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make…
• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy…
• Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,…
• You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
• Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
• I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
• Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
• As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the…

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