David Gerrold
David Gerrold
David Gerrold is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist known for his script for the popular original Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", for creating the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and for his novelette "The Martian Child", which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
avalanches
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.
adventure study great-adventure
Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.
war kids writing
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
thinking
I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
kindness philosophy commitment
I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.
time past long
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.
contentment aging accepting
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
expression world facts
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
sweet memories sleep
The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.
art lice acts-of-love
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
kissing boys hands
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.
funny sarcastic witty
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
inspirational funny humor
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
stars want different
Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.