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"The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"People are essentially red meat. They are."
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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."
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"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."
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"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."
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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
Reading
"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."
Writing
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
Reality
"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues."
Future
"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation."
Writing
"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
Choice
"Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms."
Adventure
"At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe."
Writing
"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."
Friendship
"There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves."
Creativity
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