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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before."
Time
"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
Artist
"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
People
"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't."
Change
"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."
Work
"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
Writer
"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."
Science
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
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