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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."
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"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever."
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"Does this means something!?- Does it mean that you are again on the same opinion... no reason to ask you... no reason to say it again... it's logical."
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"I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable, for they are void of reason and common sense."
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"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."
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"I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so."
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"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
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"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"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."
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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
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"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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"The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend."
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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."
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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."
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