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" I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. "

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" Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. "

Greg Egan

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" I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. "

" I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway. "

" I've been taking longer to write stories lately. "

" Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. "

" Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. "

" A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. "

" Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. "

" Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. "

Greg Egan

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" I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. "

" I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. "