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20 quotes by Richard K. Morgan

Richard Morgan (born 1965 and known as Richard K. Morgan in the USA) is an English science fiction and fantasy author. Born in London, and brought up in the village of Hethersett, near Norwich, Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde, his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer....
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I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current... →

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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... →

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Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're... →

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Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

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I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

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Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you... →

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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... →

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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... →

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As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

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I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002.

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