{"id":477,"date":"2008-01-02T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/02\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-71\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T18:58:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/02\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I&#8217;d fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, &#8216;So this is how it feels,&#8217; and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Tempest,&#8221; issue #75 of <em>The Sandman<\/em> (1996), collected in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wake-Sandman-Book-10\/dp\/1563892871\/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1199300600&#038;sr=8-7\"><em>The Wake<\/em><\/a>; The speaker is William Shakespeare, looking back over his career as he finishes writing The Tempest as one of two plays commissioned by Morpheus (aka Dream, aka The Sandman).<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I&#8217;d fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, &#8216;So this is how it feels,&#8217; and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/02\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-71\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}