#so

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#banal #banality #before #carefully #danger

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#available #bad #certainly #field #future

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#counseled #hear #helped #knuckles #rap

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#certain #complex #endowed #institution #name

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#become #fact #individuals #life #me

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#continues #discipline #each #elsewhere #entrusted

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers