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It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

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As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.

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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

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