Neil Gaiman’s Wishes for Your Coming Year

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

~ Neil Gaiman

Source: GoodReads

Alison Headley on Starting Late

“In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it’s never too late.”

~ Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006

Source: Quotations Page

Joan Didion on the Impulse to Write

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

~ Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934), Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Source: GoodReads

Lucy Maud Montgomery on the Indefatigability of Dreams

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), The Road to Yesterday

Source: GoodReads

Louisa May Alcott on Taking Fate by the Throat

“Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.”

~ Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888)

Source: About.com: Women’s History: Louisa May Alcott

Some Fun Quotes from Science Fiction Writers

Reblogged with permission from: Some fun quotes from science fiction writers by  Fr. Ernesto Obregon

Clarke’s Three Laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Corollary to Clarke’s First Law – When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

— Isaac Asimov

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Corollary to Clarke’s Third Law – Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology.

— Larry Niven

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Corollary to Niven’s Law – 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 “idiot.”

— S. M. Stirling

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Clarke’s Second Law of Egodynamics – For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Finagle’s corollary to Murphy’s Law – Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.

— John W. Campbell, Jr.

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Hanlon’s Razor – Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Robert J. Hanlon

[Note, however, that this law is considered a later development of Ingham’s Maxim — Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory. —Sir Bernard Ingham]

Brian W. Aldiss on Science Fiction

“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”

~ Brian W. Aldiss

Source: Quoteland: Science Fiction Quotes

Theophile Gautier on Travel

“I was born to travel and write verse.”

~ Theophile Gautier

Source: BrainyQuote

Benjamin Disraeli on the Universality of Knowledge

“It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.”

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Source: “Benjamin Diraeli” The Quotations Page

Albert Einstein on the Importance of Imagination

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

~ Albert Einstein

Source: GoodReads