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“The human spirit cannot be overcome. You know, as a writer, if you took away my paper, I would write on my heart. If you take away my ink, I'd write on the wind.
(It wouldn't be an ideal way to work.)”
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(It wouldn't be an ideal way to work.)”
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“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“I'm aware I can be exhausting - "you exist too much," my mother often told me.”
― You Exist Too Much
― You Exist Too Much
“My books are all essentially about ‘what ifs’. In Black Fang I asked: What if a rat could drive a bus? And what if it and its rat brethren took over and ate Parliament?”
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“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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