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But science perhaps is very di...

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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I like to think that I have no...

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

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

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I do think that short story wr...

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

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I sell well now in Russia. I r...

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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I think it can be quite imposs...

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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A novel is often a longer proc...

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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It takes me a long time to get...

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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I would like to do a novel whe...

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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I've always thought of absurdi...

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

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The absurdist stuff wasn't ter...

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

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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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Ethical and questions of philo...

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

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Originality is a concept possi...

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

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As far as the mechanics go, wo...

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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A lot of us don't want to be q...

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

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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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Action isn't my forte. I'm an ...

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

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I was never able to write seri...

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

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

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