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"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."

"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
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"Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens."


"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."


"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."


"It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end."


"If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur."


"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."


"Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book."
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