"When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves."
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"I like being a writer."
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"Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect."
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"I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science."
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"Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am."
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"You can't die with an unfinished book."
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"I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed."
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"I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things."
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"There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town."
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"Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage."
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"I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up."
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"Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'"
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"The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine."
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"If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble."
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"I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them."
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"There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory."
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"Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity."
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"I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book."
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"As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next."
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"Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more."
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