“Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you...” — M. John Harrison Quote

“Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.”

“Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.”

“I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.”

“So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.”

“Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.”