- Decaying
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
- Also
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were in the Peace Corps.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.
- Reach
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.
- Florida
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Florida, Central Florida, and North Florida could never be mistaken for each other. Each has its quirks and attractions.
- Atheist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020