top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged."
Standard
Customized
More
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The wonder of words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But language is wine upon his lips."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
Author Name
Personal Development
"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Romantic
"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
Project
"Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged."
Language
"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
Novel
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
Prequels
"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."
Fact
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
Income
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
Travel
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
Work
"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories."
Home
bottom of page