Greg Egan Quotes

"Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century."
- Greg Egan

"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Now, Writing)

"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Artists, Giants, Years)

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Writers)

"I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Time, Thought, Winning)

"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Change, Interest, Writing)

"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Decisions)

"Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club."
- Greg Egan

"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Computers, Now, Software, Years)

"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Work, Quality, Being, Writer)

"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
- Greg Egan
(Related: First, Publishing, Writers)

"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
- Greg Egan
(Related: People)

"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Science, Flying, Writers)