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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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