"That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out."
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"No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses."
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"Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box."
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"Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead."
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"Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle."
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"Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability."
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"Some people feed you with love."
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"The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition."
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"The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out."
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"If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable."
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"I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia."
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"I've been playing 'Doom' for some years."
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"The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot."
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"I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick."
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"If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people."
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"George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick."
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