We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

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I am...a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

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The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

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I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

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Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

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The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

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