Daniel Abraham - Stories Quotes

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I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social struggles of that time. When you see a bunch of similar projects meeting with success, you've found a place in the social landscape where a particular story (or moral or scenario) speaks to readers. You've found a place where the things that stories offer are most needed.
And since the thing that stories most often offer is comfort, you've found someplace rich with anxiety and uncertainty.

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Stop, Holden said. I don't care. I don't want to hear any more of your stories about how being a cop makes you wiser and deeper and able to face the truth about humanity. As far as I can tell, all it did was break you. Okay?
Yeah, okay.
Dresden and his Protogen buddies thought they could choose who lives and who dies. That sound familiar? And don't tell me it's different this time, because everyone says that, every time. And it's not.

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