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"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."
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"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
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"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
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"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."
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"Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer."
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"Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest."
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"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."
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"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
Interest
"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so."
Innovation
"I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new."
Growth
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
Reading
"Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art."
Politics
"I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year."
Writing
"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies."
Reflection
"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known."
Reflection
"Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly."
Economy
"I've been writing full-time since 1978."
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