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" I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Can
See
Evidence
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" I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Simple
Think
Writer
" I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Book
Writer
Same
" The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Here
Pure
World
" The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Heart
Research
Soul
" Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that. "
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Wait
Saying
" An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Sense
Nature
Divine
" Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Work
Real
Happen
" A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot. "
Robert J. Sawyer
She
Wait
Need
" All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
" Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Government
Science Fiction
Science
" I am very pro-science. "
Robert J. Sawyer
I Am
Am
Very
" Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. "
Robert J. Sawyer
People
View
Real
" I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
Think
Always
" The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Science
People
Name
" Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Much
Science
Technology
" I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Reading
People
Own
" Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Us
Wild
Power
" I've had many of my books optioned. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Had
Many
Books
" I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Rights
First
Value
" I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Live
Peace
People
" I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Would
Write
More
" My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Think
Human
Mission
" I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. "
Robert J. Sawyer
America
Guild
Member
" Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system. "
Robert J. Sawyer
War
Class
Political
" A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Idea
Them
Whole
" One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Thought
Real
Life
" Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Experiences
Art
You
" Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it. "
Robert J. Sawyer
People
Story
Reality
" Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Her
Writing
Someone
" Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that. "
Robert J. Sawyer
Reality
Live
Everything