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" I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. "

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" The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. "

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" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "

" Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. "

" Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. "

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" I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. "

" What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. "

" Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. "

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" I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad. "

" I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. "

" Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. "

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" I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. "

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