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"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
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"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."

"I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending."

"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."

"I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life."

"Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books."

"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."

"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust."

"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."
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