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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

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Everything interests me.

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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I like to travel and connect.

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

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All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 18th, 1957

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