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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

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

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

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

I read a lot of history for fun.

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

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