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“I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.”

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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that…

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“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

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“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

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“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”

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“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.”

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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

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“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical…

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I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

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