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Literary Agent Inspirational Quotes (39)

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Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.
Andrew Wylie
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The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.
Andrew Wylie
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A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
Frederik Pohl
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
Elisabeth Marbury
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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
Elisabeth Marbury
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
Frederik Pohl
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For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.
Frederik Pohl
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
Frederik Pohl
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It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.
Elisabeth Marbury
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My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl
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The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.
Elisabeth Marbury
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl
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Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
Frederik Pohl
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We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.
Isabel Colegate
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
Frederik Pohl
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
Noah Lukeman
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In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.
Isabel Colegate
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English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.
Paul Scott
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
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People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Frederik Pohl
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Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
Paul Scott
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
Frederik Pohl
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I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.
Andrew Wylie
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