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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."

"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."

"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
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"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"


"If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur."


"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."


"Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book."


"Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction."


"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."


"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."
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