I’d always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form – for one thing, you’re able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
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. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don’t need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise – the Wicked Witch. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
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. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that’s humanly true. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
I’ve seen ‘True Detective’ end-to-end at least three times; I’ll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I’ll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I’m done with the call. Richard K. Morgan Read Quote
