Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford asked Mark Lawrence:

What are three books that got you into writing fantasy?

Mark Lawrence I think there's only one book that got me into writing, and I won't name it because the reason it got me writing was that it was so very bad.

When I used to read good (or even average) books, I used to think: "There's no way I could do this."

But then I read a terribly written book and thought: "How did this get published? Even I could write better than this."

So I had a go.

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There's a popular saying that you must write and throw away a million words before you're able to write at a professional level of quality. How true was this for you?

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I'm not a scientist but I do have a better than average grasp on the way that science affects our daily world. So to me when I read science fiction I think to myself that many of the premises I could see one day coming to pass. But the way you present the magic in your tales, it seems like it's a byproduct of science. I know that you have a much greater understanding of science and AI, is magic a byproduct of science?

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