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  • August 25th, 2012 1:59pm

    Novelists and short-story writers are not under the same obligations as poets to reinforce sense with sound. In prose, on the whole the rhythm is all right if it isn’t clearly wrong.

    — Janet Burroway – Writing Fiction; A guide to narrative craft

  • August 24th, 2012 8:16pm

    Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

    — Philip K. Dick (via trevoredwards)

  • August 23rd, 2012 5:54pm

    The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race’s most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must—never for sport.

    — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love – 1973 (via trevoredwards)

  • August 21st, 2012 5:08pm

    littlejoi:

    “Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.” –Rod Serling

  • August 21st, 2012 11:19am

    Was reading…

    trevoredwards:

    Fear Itself by Michael Reaves and Steven-Elliot Altman when I came across a passage where Bruce was attending his own Masquerade Party as Zorro. He then went on to describe how the Zorro costume made him want to swagger. I got a pretty good laugh out of it, and thought I’d share it. 

    Five minutes later Bruce started for the entrance hall. He was resisting the urge to swagger; there was something about the Zorro costume that was swagger-inducing. Odd, really. It was just a mask and a cape, after all; not so different from the cowl and cloak he wore nearly every night. And yet his “work clothes” inspired no desire to swagger. 

    Must be the sleeves, he thought. 

    Forgot about this until I was going through a tag trying to find something. It was actually a pretty decent Batman novel overall. 

  • August 21st, 2012 12:06am

    This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do – not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less the bullshit.

    — Stephen King (via trevoredwards)

  • August 20th, 2012 10:52pm

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    — Arthur C. Clarke (via rexsantus)

  • August 20th, 2012 12:50pm

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    — Robert A. Heinlein (via trevoredwards)

  • August 20th, 2012 11:30am

    Death, like diamonds, was forever.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower: VI Song of Susannah. (via trevoredwards)

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