Quotes by Chuck Wendig

“Thats why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?”

“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.”

“Where theres smoke, theres usually fire, Solo says before adding quietly, Usually an electrical fire near the hyperspace drive, which Chewie always warns me about”

“Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.”

“No, I just mean Im not into this.This? Her scowl deepens and her teeth bare. Alie”

“Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.”

“She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.”

“The Empire must fall.”

“Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.”

“We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.”

“We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.”

“You can’t be friends with a droid.”

“Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, pe...”

“The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil,...”

“All under the pretense of military application.”He pouts. “No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it’s changed our culture.”

“Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things”

“She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.”

“You’re a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrens—and you’ll save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselv...”

“It starts with my mother….Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That’s why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their sto...”

“That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?”