"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."

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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."

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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."

Reality

"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."

Writing

"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."

Fiction

"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."

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"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."

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"Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms."

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"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."

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"The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations."

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"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."

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"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation."

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