Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.
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Jennifer Niven
I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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Tahereh Mafi
No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!
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Mac Miller
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Roald Dahl
I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By David Brin
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . that so many of them take place in cultures that...
..where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with...
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
