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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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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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"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
Computer
"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
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
Writer
"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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"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'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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