363 quotes found
“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 arri...”
“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”
“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
“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.”
“The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.”
“That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.”
“She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.”
“No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the the stars, not what se...”
“Sixty years ago the idea of everyone having a telephone in their pockets was science fiction. Our whole way of life is science fiction, if you look at it from the past.”
“This drama was based on the true story of Constance Jeanne Sammarco, who, in 2012, was a 62-year-old, senior Caucasian teacher who was employed at Fairmont Heights High School, a 99% African Americ...”
“People write books because of injustices.”
“I feel like a china cup that broke and was put back together wrong.”
“Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.”
“Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky.”
“[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a cha...”
“True Cause. History is full of war, of death, of sacrificeof unimaginable brutality. All in the name of the Cause. The mighty Cause.It is not the idea of fighting for a cause that saddens me so. It...”
“Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.”
“If this place were closer to Terra thered be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. Thered be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven...”
“Its not just the drive. Theyre right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.Who are, dear?Robots selling things. As soon as I set down the ship. Robots and visual-audio ads. They ...”
“I have found that life has been a balanced road that continues to be obscured by the dust of prejudice and dangerous extremes; good and evil, law and chaos, faith and logic, love and hate, greed an...”
