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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."


"Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can."


"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."


"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."


"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."


"I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again."


"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."
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