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" 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. "

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" I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers. "

" I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed. "

" I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy. "

" As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out. "

" 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. "

" There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet. "

" Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash. "

" 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. "

" Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves. "

" '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. "

" 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 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.' "

" Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind. "

" Before I wrote 'God's War,' I probably did eight years of research into the Middle East, Judaism, Islam, Catholicisim, and all sorts of fabulous other things. "

" Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that. "

" As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks. "

" I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves. "

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

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

" My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words. "

" As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus. "

" I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war. "

" Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife. "