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"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
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"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."
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"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."
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"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly."
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"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
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"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."
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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
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"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."
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"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."
Balance
"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."
Creativity
"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."
Faith
"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."
Creativity
"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
Communication
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
Creativity
"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
Challenge
"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
Money
"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
Style
"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
Writing
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