Janni Simner on the Writer’s Journey

“You’re going to have setbacks, and you’re going to be okay. This isn’t your one big chance. It’s the start of a long and winding (and heartbreaking and glorious) journey.”

~ Janni Simner, Author of the post-apocalyptic Bones of Faerie trilogy and the Iceland-based fantasy Thief Eyes

Source: For new writers (and also for the rest of us), August 6, 2013

Lillian Hellman on Cynicism

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

~ Lillian Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984)

Source: A Quotation: Lillian Hellman

Theophile Gautier on Writers as Artists

“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”

~ Theophile Gautier

Source: BrainyQuote

Ève Curie on Peace at Any Price

“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all…that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving…and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”

~ Ève Curie (born Ève Denise Curie Labouisse, December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007)

Source: GoodReads

Mark Twain on the Necessity of Avoiding People Who Belittle Your Ambitions

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

~ Mark Twain, aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Source: Quotes4All: Mark Twain

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]

Jane Rule on Bearing Witness

“If we don’t bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.”

~ Jane Rule

Source: Brainy Quote: Jane Rule

C.S. Lewis on Failure and Achievement

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

~ C. S. Lewis

Source: The Quotations Page: C. S. Lewis

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

Anais Nin on How We See Things

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

~ Anais Nin

Source: BrainyQuote