Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Atheism

Atheist

Philosophy

A weapon is a tool,” she repeated, a little breathlessly. “A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension–you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

Needs

Tools

Weakness

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Giving

Real

Writing

Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.

Breathe

Culture

Smog

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Perfectly Normal

Social Behavior

Understanding

For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

Memories

Reality

Stars

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Fiction

Honesty

Years

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That’s one of the things about teaching abroad.

Doe

Other Cultures

Teaching

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

Hands

Men

Self

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I’m concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Adults

Book

Children

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Adults

Angry

Atheism

Atheist

Bad Relationship

Believe

Book

Breathe

Care

Children

Chill

Country

Culture

Died

Doe

Dream

Effort

Enough

Eye

Fall

Fantasy

Fiction

Firsts

Forgiving

Games

Giving

Hands

Honesty

Hurt

Kind

Littles

Long

Mean

Memories

Men

Moments

Mother

Names

Needs

Other Cultures

Perfectly Normal

Philosophy

Phrases

Proud

Real

Reality

Self

Smog

Social Behavior

Sometimes

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Tool

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Tool

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Tool

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Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That’s one of the things about teaching abroad.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I’m concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

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