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I've always thought of absurd...

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

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There is a great deal of cybe...

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

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I would like to do a novel wh...

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

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Wherever you go in the galaxy...

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

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I think it can be quite impos...

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.

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But science perhaps is very d...

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

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The British audience was very...

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

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I sell well now in Russia. I ...

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

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Why in God's name should a Go...

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

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I don't much like to look bac...

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

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As far as the mechanics go, w...

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

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I'm not so interested any mor...

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

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I'm quite influenced in this ...

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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So I wrote what I hoped would...

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

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I like to think that I have n...

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

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It takes me a long time to ge...

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

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Originality is a concept poss...

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

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Ethical and questions of phil...

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

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I don't finish every story, b...

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

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I was never able to write ser...

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

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