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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#between #bore #distinguish #find #ideas

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#behaved #boy #difference #girl #guilt

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bid #box #california #coast #i

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#capitol #constitution #dome #form #jump

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#bought #down #entertaining #great #great literature

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #bring #damn #few #few people

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#around #changed #clubs #coffee #finish