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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
Warren Ellis
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Warren Ellis
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: February 16
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Warren Girard Ellis
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Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.
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Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'
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What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.
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Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.
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Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
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My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
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Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
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I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
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Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!
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Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.
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Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
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I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.
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Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.
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I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
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good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
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