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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. ↗

— David Brin

#backgrounds #characters #depth #develop #erupt

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy. ↗

— David Brin

#never #normally #out #set #trilogy

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. ↗

— William Feather

#children #emphatic #indignant #like #lying

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. ↗

— David Brin

#best #better #could #differential #doubt

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? ↗

— David Brin

#does #elephant #enough #getting #heartbeats

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ↗

— David Brin

#always #comes #demand #else #everyone

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#away #brando #directions #enough #get

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#class #gave #growing #growing up #i

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#attitude #body #first #i #i tried