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american-inventor devote family helps hours lives mac single time yours
Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it. Andy Hertzfeld
american-inventor people
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. Edwin Armstrong
american-inventor earth greatest man miracle problem
Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. David Sarnoff
american-inventor believe human mind
What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
american-inventor caught images normal wake
It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
american-inventor articulate came emotions fantasy fierce found horror natural necessary written
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.
american-inventor attention life loner rather secluded
I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
american-inventor conscious flights follow inspired simply
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.
american-inventor best bringing burns controls dark feeds fire forever heart horror imagination light love red soul tortured wild
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
exposition history line revealing
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc. Richard Bausch
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction science-fiction conventions
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
fiction geek fantasy
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. Alan Watts
science judging hammers
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. Dave Barry
science animal mph
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
science simple water
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!
science years careers
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.
science oxygen breathe
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
theme fascinated
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by. Alan Ball
theme tonight
Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal.
theme type relaxed
The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed. Deepak Chopra
theme
Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.
theme again-and-again
Themes recur again and again in my work. Eve Arnold
theme fraud felt
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. Moby
theme painter sculptors
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. Michael Heizer
theme repetition autobiography
The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. Mason Cooley
theme novel great-novels
They say great themes make great novels John O'Hara