Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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Paul Di Filippo
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
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Paul Di Filippo
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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Paul Di Filippo
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
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Paul Di Filippo
We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than...
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Clifford D. Simak
More Quotes By Scott Westerfeld
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
