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Readercon 15, Burlington, MA, 11-13 July 2003

Ambizione!

"Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function." - Italo Calvino
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John Clute

"The thing that writers continually forget about...is that it is a privilege to be misunderstood, because most people are never heard at all."

Howard Waldrop

"In keeping with my career so far, my Y2K story was published in February, 2001. It wasn't alternate history when I wrote it, but by the time it was published, it was."

Ellen Kushner

"My ambition is to write work that lasts."
"In some ways the most ambitious thing that I've done is to buck my own snobbery by continuing to write in the 'universe' or 'world' that I began in Swordspoint -- even though I despise people who do that -- but I wanted to do it anyway!"
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