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 Theodore Sturgeon
Why do you talk all the time?” I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.“ I think it’s ’cause I don’t know any big words, like you and Mummy, ” she said, just in...
I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. “Put them pants on, ” I said, “and be a man.” She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, “Stop it now. I...
The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted.. used to.. whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before I would paint it. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And I...
Just think about it, " he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."" Shut up shut up... Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
