top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Standard
Customized
More
"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
Space
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
Dream
"Writing is a communication."
Communication
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
Humor
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Reason
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
Students
bottom of page