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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

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The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

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I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

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