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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

John Scalzi

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John Scalzi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 10
Author
Blogger
Film Critic
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfield
California
John Michael Scalzi II
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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
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Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
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You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
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Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
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There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
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The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
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The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
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Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
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I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
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I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
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The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
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The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
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Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.
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GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
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Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
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