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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

  • #3
    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #4
    Isaac Asimov
    “And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.”
    Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA

  • #5
    Isaac Asimov
    “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #7
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best
    science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
    writer.
    [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #8
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #9
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #10
    Michael Moorcock
    “We must be bound to one another then," Elric murmured despairingly. "Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then—let it be thus so—and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melinbone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind—produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!”
    Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls

  • #11
    Michael Moorcock
    “What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
    Michael Moorcock

  • #12
    C.L. Wilson
    “He held up his index finger. 'Rule one: in any dispute between mates, the male is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two'—his middle finger joined the first—'whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.”
    C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands

  • #13
    C.L. Wilson
    “You were chastising me. You may continue.”
    C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands

  • #14
    Nora Roberts
    “She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. ”
    Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge

  • #15
    Nora Roberts
    “And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

    Nora Roberts

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #17
    Tamora Pierce
    “When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
    Tamora Pierce

  • #18
    Tamora Pierce
    “There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
    -George to Alanna”
    Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

  • #19
    Tamora Pierce
    “Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
    George Cooper”
    Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

  • #20
    Tamora Pierce
    “I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
    -Myles of Olau”
    Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

  • #21
    Tamora Pierce
    “I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
    A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against his side.
    "I know," he said. "I just wanted to be sure you knew it, too.”
    Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

  • #22
    Tamora Pierce
    “You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man --"

    "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women -- they just make more fuss about being able to.”
    Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

  • #23
    Tamora Pierce
    “Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway."
    Daja: "If you know, you can stop it."
    Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.”
    Tamora Pierce, Sandry's Book

  • #24
    Tamora Pierce
    “Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.”
    Tamora Pierce, Sandry's Book

  • #25
    Tamora Pierce
    “She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.”
    Tamora Pierce
    tags: women

  • #26
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #28
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #30
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #31
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves



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