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M. John Harrison Quotes
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July 26, 1945
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison
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Gambling
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Unpredictable
Less
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
M. John Harrison
God
Never
More
Old
Dirty
Quarry
Been
Interested
Really
Them
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
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Confidence
Hide
Start
Undermine
Afraid
Any
Ask
Form
Genre
Ground
Itself
Rule
Then
Trying
Write
Writing
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
M. John Harrison
Science
Moment
Writing
Must
Science Fiction
Triumph
Every
Fiction
Over
Represent
Story
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
Great
Done
Everything
Place
Attempt
Bargain
Believes
Foot
Fulfill
Survey
Technically
Ability
Above
Anything
Around
Because
Get
Going
Here
Necessary
Part
Reader
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