Category Archives: Quotes

As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I’m sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I’ll … Continue reading →

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. –David Weber, quote from Honor Harrington in On Basilisk Station (1993) Send to Kindle

You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates … Continue reading →

Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured. –Robert Silverberg, Up the Line Send to Kindle

My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We’re hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely … Continue reading →

As far as “plot” goes, as I get older I more and more suspect that “plot” is really being used, in the many incarnations of this argument, as a placeholder for a whole cloud of qualities found (or not found) … Continue reading →

I try to write every day. I used to try to write four times a day, minimum of three sentences each time. It doesn’t sound like much but it’s kinda like the hare and the tortoise. If you try that … Continue reading →