I love lying to the reader and making it look like something’s happened when it hasn’t. I do feel bad about killing characters, but I don’t feel bad about them doing bad things. Maybe that makes my stories more boring.

Gary Panter
  • in <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200906/?read=interview_panter" target="_blank">"What If The Texans And The Japanese Settled On Mars?"</a> (Believermag.com)
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