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"Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!"
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."
"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
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