Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan
Richard Morganis an English science fiction and fantasy author...
NationalityEnglish
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thinking chill moments
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.
thinking world twenties
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
teaching other-cultures doe
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.
eye effort littles
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
writing thinking definitions
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
children book littles
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
perfectly-normal understanding social-behavior
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
men hands names
If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.
attempts bad bit good guys modern morally myth mythology pervasive replace shake simply
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.
authors good time
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
libraries local visits
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
advantages certainly concern form hankering less particular sword time usual
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.
comparable dialogue guess line piece required sign single time visual
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
either far
As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.