- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020