Treat your life like something to be sculpted. BrainyQuote. 2020. 27 Larry Niven Quotes – Inspirational Quotes At Brainyquote. [online] Available at: <https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/larry-niven-quotes> [Accessed 30 April 2020].
Month: April 2020
A Ticket To The Moon
I’d visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me… Read more “A Ticket To The Moon”
Given It Away For Free
Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free – or… Read more “Given It Away For Free”
It Is A Cardinal Sin To Bore The Reader
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. Larry Niven Quotes (Author of Ringworld). (2020). Retrieved 30 April 2020, from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12534.Larry_Niven
The Term Is “Idiot”
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is… Read more “The Term Is “Idiot””
It’s A Thingy You’ve Made
You can’t deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It’s a thingy you’ve made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me,… Read more “It’s A Thingy You’ve Made”
The Word Has Not Lost A Superhuman Power To Connect Young And Old
In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those patterns of explanation… Read more “The Word Has Not Lost A Superhuman Power To Connect Young And Old”
Novels Are Tools Of Thoughts
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.… Read more “Novels Are Tools Of Thoughts”
The Job Entails Solitude
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in… Read more “The Job Entails Solitude”
There Are No Wicked Stepchildren
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no… Read more “There Are No Wicked Stepchildren”
Until I Feared I Would Lose It
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee Quotes (Author of To Kill a Mockingbird). (2020).… Read more “Until I Feared I Would Lose It”
It’s Not Necessary To Tell All You Know
It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike — in the second place, folks don’t like to have someone around knowin’ more than they… Read more “It’s Not Necessary To Tell All You Know”
It’s A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing… Read more “It’s A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird”
Always Tell The Truth
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor,… Read more “Always Tell The Truth”
Evasion Simply Muddles’em
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion… Read more “Evasion Simply Muddles’em”
Introductions Inhibit Pleasure
As a reader I loathe introductions… Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. Harper Lee Quotes (Author of To Kill a Mockingbird).… Read more “Introductions Inhibit Pleasure”
Any Writer Worth His Salt
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.… Read more “Any Writer Worth His Salt”
A Way Of Using Words
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till… Read more “A Way Of Using Words”
We Do Not Write In Order To Be Understood
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my… Read more “We Do Not Write In Order To Be Understood”
The Real Mystery To Crack Is You
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack… Read more “The Real Mystery To Crack Is You”
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