Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

About Richard K. Morgan:

Richard Morgan is an English science fiction and fantasy author.
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Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.

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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

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There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been droppe...

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...the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.

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If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leaders...

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It was the blue-tinged taste of a regret so deep you could never plumb its depths. It was the victory at Rajal that never came, it was his brother walking away down the long dark wood corridor, it was a life he might have had in Yhelteth if disgust a...

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Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

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Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand," Ringil said quietly.

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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'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 trends.

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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 telling.

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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 something to write about.

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'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

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

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For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds...

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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 remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

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The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control. ...

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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 about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard K. Morgan
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • AliasesRichard Morgan
  • Born1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter