"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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"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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"Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!"

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"For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!"

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"As an atom, so is the universe. As is a drop of water, so is an ocean."

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"And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising."

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"The universe created me to see its own beauty through my eyes."

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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

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"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."

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"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."

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