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Rolando Andrés Ramos

Rolando Andrés Ramos

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    Month: April 2020

    Treat Your Life Like Something To Be Sculpted

    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&gt; [Accessed 30 April 2020].

    April 30, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 30, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 30, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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

    April 30, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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””

    April 30, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 29, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 29, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 29, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 29, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 28, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 27, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 27, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

    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”

    April 26, 2020 by Rolando Andrés Ramos

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