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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.

Alive, Culture, Detailed, Nuanced, Read, Unstereotypable
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Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

Defined, Explode, Hands, Ideas, Long, Work

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Ghost, Left, Problem, Riding, Shoulders, Surviving

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Fully, Nature, Tinkering, World

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

Stories, World, Trends, Surfeit, Pushes, Present

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Lying, Ocean, Side, Sides, Terrible
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