John Crowley
John Crowley
John Crowley /ˈkraʊli/is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
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We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.
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We decided we wanted the hospitals to have an opportunity to digest this information (before) we would issue a press release,
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It dialed the Yellow Cab Co. in Brockton.
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I thought the kids played their hearts out.
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It's glorious, because the story is always moving forward through the dialogue. So I always felt on very safe ground with the script.
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This, there was no comparison. It was probably the largest mass casualty incident anybody had responded to.
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They played a very up-tempo game, which is what we wanted from the beginning. This was probably the most complete game we played in about three weeks. We did a nice job overall.
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This is the first time in history that we've evacuated a whole city,
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The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.
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The cab driver gave the officer an earring he found inside his cab right after he dropped the fare off,
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The state has made efforts, intensive efforts as I understand it, to get people to sign up.
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.