Grumbles From The Grave Quotes

“Winslow says I don't understand plotting and probably I don't - I have been congratulated many times on the skill shown in my plotting when I knew damn well that the story in question had not been plotted in advance at all. My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to cope with a problem, does so, and thereby changes his personality, character, or evaluations in some measure because the coping has forced him to revise his thinking. How h copes with it I can't plot because that depends on his character, and I don't know his what his character is until i get acquainted with him. When I can "hear the character talk" then I'm all right - he works out his own salvation.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Grumbles From The Grave

“There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Grumbles From The Grave