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- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
- Nov 07, 2020