Ted Mahsun > Ted's Quotes

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“now he realized… now he knew why the Empire had survived because of the game; Azad itself simply produced an insatiable desire for more victories, more power, more territory, more dominance…”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

“Science fiction stories are those in which some aspect of future science or high technology is so integral to the story that, if you take away the science or technology, the story collapses.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

“I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life