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I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.

There Is A Point In Fighting. There Is A Point In Struggle. Not Wholesale Revolution, Maybe, That Might Not Be Possible, An Absolutely Just Society, But There Are Plenty Of Spaces And Places Where It's Worth Putting Up A Fight.

It Was Always Clear To Me That I Would Have To Earn My Readers, Some I Would Have To Find, Some To Create.

If You Have Information You've Got The World By The Balls. But We Have To Convert Information Into Knowledge In Order To Make It Humanly Useful.

I Am A Writer, Which Means I Write Stories, I Write Novels, And I Would Write Poetry If I Knew How To. I Don't Want To Limit Myself.