Cory Doctorow

“Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?”

“I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.”

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

“No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where --”