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Fictioneer Inspirational Quotes (138)

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Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
Gregory Benford
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Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.
Lois Tilton
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The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
Ricardo Semler
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intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
Stanley Schmidt
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It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Stanley Schmidt
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I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.
John M. Ford
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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?
Damon Knight
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
Fred Saberhagen
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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
Gregory Benford
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What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?
James Alan Gardner
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It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.
Ricardo Semler
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.
Stanley Schmidt
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Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?
Shirley Ann Grau
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For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.
Ricardo Semler
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If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
Gregory Benford
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And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
Fred Saberhagen
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The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
Lawrence Watt-Evans
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No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Gregory Benford
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To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.
Gardner Dozois
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If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
Ricardo Semler
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By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.
Marc Ian Barasch
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For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.
Marc Ian Barasch
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