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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"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."
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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"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."
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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."
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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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"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
People

"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."
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"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
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"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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"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."
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