"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."

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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."

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"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out."

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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."

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"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."

Time

"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."

Life

"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."

People

"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."

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"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."

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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."

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"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."

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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."

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