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  • I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I'm always trolling for trivia. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions. (Aldiss Brian)
  • If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. (Aldiss Brian)
  • It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. (Aldiss Brian)
  • It's harder to get stand-alone material published, but it's worth the wait and effort, and then, if you really want to do a Star Trek novel, you can pretty much dictate the terms. (Aldiss Brian)
  • My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. (Aldiss Brian)
  • No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. (Aldiss Brian)
  • The actual process of selling my first novel was exciting at the time. I was no longer an apprentice but had become a journeyman. (Aldiss Brian)
  • Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over. (Aldiss Brian)
  • When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. (Aldiss Brian)
  • When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. (Aldiss Brian)
  • If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. (Aldiss Brian)
  • I‘m a commercial writer, not an ‘author.’ Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. (Aldiss Brian)
  • If the public likes you, you’re good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. (Aldiss Brian)
  • If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes. (Aldiss Brian)
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