Bruce Sterling Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  Bruce Sterling

  Distance, Writing, Intellectual

• The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

  Bruce Sterling

  Children, Fun, Real

• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Song, Writing, Cynical

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

• I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Research, Fiction And Nonfiction

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Data, Names

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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