Quotes by Greg Egan

Greg Egan

A story in Asimov’s is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

People

Stories

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it’s easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Book

Conceited

Firsts

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn’t only new ones who suffer from that.

Quality

Screw Ups

Suffering

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Branches

Diaspora

Years

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Lying

Mean

Sake

Fandom is about fandom, it’s a great big social club.

Clubs

Fandoms

Social

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

Force

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Doe

Want

Years

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Decision

Lost

Thinking

I don’t have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don’t.

Interest

Things Change

Writing

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Car

Century

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Conceited

Culture

Dark

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Diaspora

Doe

Drag

Emerging

Eternity

Faces

Fall

Fandoms

Firsts

Flying

Force

Gaps

Gazing

Giants

Growing Up

Has Beens

Humans

Interest

Inventory

Islands

Jewels

Journalism

June

Kind

Long

Lost

Lying

Maturity

May

Mean

Modern

Needs

Nominations

Opportunity

Overrated

Pascal

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Quotes by Greg Egan

Greg Egan

A story in Asimov’s is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it’s easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn’t only new ones who suffer from that.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Fandom is about fandom, it’s a great big social club.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

I don’t have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don’t.

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