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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
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I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
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I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
Source: From his autobiography Its More Important Than That
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