Cory Doctorow Quotes

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow

Future, Put, Treat

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
Cory Doctorow

Great, Amazing, Book

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
Cory Doctorow

Life, Down, Sit

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
Cory Doctorow

Work, Good, Less

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
Cory Doctorow

Working, Making, Story

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
Cory Doctorow

Hard, Guy, Likable

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
Cory Doctorow

Science, Writing, Stories

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
Cory Doctorow

Reality, Books, Places

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
Cory Doctorow

Feelings, Pretty, Far

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
Cory Doctorow

Find, Head, Useful

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
Cory Doctorow

Good, Stuff, Exciting

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Cory Doctorow

Apart, Robots, Robot

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Cory Doctorow

Long, Together, Put

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: July 17, 1971

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