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He was Control, and he was in control.
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Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.
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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?
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Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.
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I aimed my flashlight at the ground - and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.
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Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.
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He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.
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Observation had always meant more to me than interaction.
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Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When
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it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death.
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the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
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There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.
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For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.
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The words would linger, form in his mind, but never become sound, trapped between his need and his will.
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When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.
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The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.
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The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
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you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.
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Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?
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A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, I don't have an opinion on that.
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So many differing opinions and philosophies ... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
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But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.
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I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.
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There is always a charge, of one kind or another. *
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Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.
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What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *
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In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate.
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That was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.
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What occurs after revelation and paralysis?
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It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.
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He that feels pure, let him cast the first stone.
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The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
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They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.
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Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
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surely by now you realize that you can't trust anyone. But why not take a chance?' *
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You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going.
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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.
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He'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r.
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If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
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We all just want to people, and none of us know what that really means.
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I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.
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I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.
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We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.
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Don't thank people for giving you what you should already have
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Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.
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When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.
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What can you do when your five senses are not enough?
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We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality.
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He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment.
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Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?
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Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.
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Never do something for just one reason.
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I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
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Accidents and acts of God don't mean a thing, unless they're followed later by acts of will.
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I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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Hellooo Pelican, come in, come in? No? Okay. You just be that way, you petulant bird.
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The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.
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Above all, don't think, for what you think happens!
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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
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Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.
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History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
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Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thingfor the sake of other people. — Jeff VanderMeer
My singing ability is zilch.
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That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.
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I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
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If the world is a just place, that mark
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There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.
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I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
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An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
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As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going
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Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195
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It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I
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He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.
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People who asked questions didn't necessary like being asked questions.
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You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
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You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.
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If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
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A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.
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How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?
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Silence creates its own violence.
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