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13 quotes by Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
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Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

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The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

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I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating... →

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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making... →

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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I... →

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It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

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My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

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The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back... →

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I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in... →

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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as... →

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Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the... →

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