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I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don't screw it up too much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.
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Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader.
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Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with.
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Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.
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Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater threat to progress than the phrase, 'That's impossible.'
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