Ted Chiang

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.