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• ‟ I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

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• ‟ I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

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• ‟ The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

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• ‟ Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

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• ‟ Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

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• ‟ I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

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• ‟ In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

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• ‟ I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

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• ‟ Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

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