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Top 20 Michael Swanwick Quotes (2025 Update)

Michael Swanwick Quote: “I’m going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.”

1. “I’m going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”

2. “Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don’t like Tom Purdom, you don’t like science fiction. Period.”

3. “Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don’t like Tom Purdom, you don’t like science fiction. Period.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “The bureaucrat fell from the sky.”

4. “The bureaucrat fell from the sky.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks – to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.”

5. “This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks – to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “It almost sounds sensible when you say it,” Prince First-Born Splendor said. “Even though I know better.”

6. “It almost sounds sensible when you say it,” Prince First-Born Splendor said. “Even though I know better.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.”

7. “The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.”

8. “Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.”

9. “So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.”

10. “But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “Lucky for you, you don’t need to worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.”

11. “Lucky for you, you don’t need to worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics,” Darger said. “She is, in either case, ravishing.”

12. “I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics,” Darger said. “She is, in either case, ravishing.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “It’s not the principles that kill you in the end. It’s the books.”

13. “It’s not the principles that kill you in the end. It’s the books.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...”

14. “The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.”

15. “Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “Art should be beautiful, not ugly. It should be uplifting and redemptive. Art reassures us that life is good and that, however bad things may look at the moment, everything works out for the best in the end.”

16. “Art should be beautiful, not ugly. It should be uplifting and redemptive. Art reassures us that life is good and that, however bad things may look at the moment, everything works out for the best in the end.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.”

17. “Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.”

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Michael Swanwick Quote: “The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. –.”

18. “The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. –.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “The body, you know, is ninety percent water, and there are those who will tell you that life is only a device which water employs to move itself about.”

19. “The body, you know, is ninety percent water, and there are those who will tell you that life is only a device which water employs to move itself about.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.”

20. “You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.”

— Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick Quote: “I once asked Fritz Leiber if it was not possible that Newhon, the world inhabited by his adventurers, was actually a horror venue, disguised by the fact that Fafhrd and Mouser, those most urbane of swordsmen, always escaped the consequences of their actions at the end of each story. To this he responded, “Everything I have ever written is horror.”

21. “I once asked Fritz Leiber if it was not possible that Newhon, the world inhabited by his adventurers, was actually a horror venue, disguised by the fact that Fafhrd and Mouser, those most urbane of swordsmen, always escaped the consequences of their actions at the end of each story. To this he responded, “Everything I have ever written is horror.”

— Michael Swanwick

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