Richard K. Morgan Quotes

Syndicate Is Technically The First Game I Worked On.

It Was The Single Forgiving Phrase In The Syntax Of Weaponry I Had Strapped About Me. The Rest Were Unequivocal Sentences Of Death.

Science Casts A Long Black Shadow Back Over Who We Think We Are, And Where It Falls The Temperature Falls With It. Its Touch Is Chilly And Unforgiving.

Good Authors Mature Over Time: It Does Take Awhile. Travel Abroad And Learn To Live In Other Cultures. That's One Of The Things About Teaching Abroad.

I Think Certainly If I'd Started Getting Published When I Was In My Early Twenties, I Was Quite Sheltered Then And Didn't Know Anything Much About The World. I Hadn't Had Any Direct Experience Of How The World Works.

Certainly A Decade And A Half Out In The Real World, Bashing My Head Against Things, Probably Made Me Into A More Textured Writer. It Gives You Something To Write About.

I Have So Little Patience With The Whole Y.a. Book Thing. As Far As I'm Concerned, You Either Read Books For Children Or You Read Books For Adults.

Hand Over Your Responses To The Man Who Triggers Them, And You Have Already Lost The Battle For Self. Look Beyond, And Find Yourself There Instead.

I've Been Accused Countless Times Of Writing Gloomy Futures. But To Me, The Texture Of My Sci-fi Just Feels Like An Extrapolation Of Current Trends.

A Weapon Is A Tool," She Repeated, A Little Breathlessly. "a Tool For Killing And Destroying. And There Will Be Times When, As An Envoy, You Must Kill And Destroy. Then You Will Choose And Equip Yourself With The Tools That You Need. But Remember The Weakness Of Weapons. They Are An Extension--you Are The Killer And Destroyer. You Are Whole, With Or Without Them.

In The Future, Maybe Quantum Mechanics Will Teach Us Something Equally Chilling About Exactly How We Exist From Moment To Moment Of What We Like To Think Of As Time.

I Think By Definition You Need To Have Lived A Little Bit To Write Anything That's Humanly True.