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There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.

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.

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

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 been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

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

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.

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

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.

There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

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Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster – in music, in fashion, in art, too.

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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