364 Quotes by Charles Stross

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

I do not click on random youtube videos.

History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.