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"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
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