#ma

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. ↗

— Tim Vine

#coffee #dates #day #deadline #every

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#does #enrich #equal #forms #get

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#ancient #blindly #close #comfort #conservative

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#creatures #earth #end #fact #humans

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#common #common ground #discovering #enough #find

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#after #characters #decided #female #female characters

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #designed #environment #intervals #long

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#human #human race #physical #possibility #race