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Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. ↗


— Red Haircrow


#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #writing-style #life

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. ↗


— Rod Sterling


#impossible #improbable #possible #probable #science-fiction

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright weird. But then again, you’d have to be. To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors. ↗


— Christopher Hopper


#computer-science #strangeness #weirdness #writing-process #science

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus. ↗


— Jasper Fforde


#myths #prometheus #zeus #humor

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. ↗


— Gustave Le Bon


#propaganda-government #science

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#practicality #proverbs #wise

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ↗


— Jane Austen


#self-awareness #self-improvement #wise

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. ↗


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#knowledge #problems #information

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#power #profanity #information

See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems. ↗


— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha


#life-coaching #light #people #potential #problem






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