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" The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature. "

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" I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe. "

" What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false. "

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" Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon. "

" Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. "

" Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't. "

" I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways. "

" Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so. "

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" I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have it all for it to work for me. "

" I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don't screw it up too much. "

" When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too. "

" What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways. "

" I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf. "

" This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader. "

" It's easier to say people are crazy than to try to figure out why. "

" Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one. "

" I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to do, and what you find out is that they're going to bully you anyway. And I thought, 'You know what? If I'm going to get bullied anyway, I might as well get bullied for making a difference in the world.' "

" People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with. "

" Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words! "

" Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile. "

" Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation. "

" If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before. "

" When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay. "

" 'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships. "

" I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it. "

" What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them. "

" I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge. "

" I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together. "

" I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live. "

" I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways. "