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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'

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Canada was built on dead beavers.

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

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I'm bad at picking heroes.

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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

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If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

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