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• The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
• That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…
• What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…
• The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
• Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
• As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…
• Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger…
• The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
• Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from…
• Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…
• The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…
• The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…

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