Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Robert Reedwas an American stage, film, and television actor, and television director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 October 1932
CountryUnited States of America
calling paper moments
I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.
dream writing want
Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.
loss intelligent past
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.
winning player opponents
To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.
unique ideas finishing
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
book reading farewell
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
fiction levels century
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
wonderful imagine burden
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
entrepreneur community together
A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.
entrepreneur community working-together
A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.
clever average mind
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.
book boys space
2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.
buddhist real believe
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.
couple cutting effort
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.