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Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle QUOTES

Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle QUOTES

1 " Try to be nice. And if you can’t be nice, then shut the hell up and go stand in the corner with your drink and leave all the rest of us alone. Yes, yes, you’re right and everyone else is wrong. That—like your immense talent—is a given. But just because you’re right doesn’t mean you should be a dick about it. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

2 " This would require an e-book reader that is as easy to read as a traditional book, durable to abuse as much as we abuse paperbacks and cheap enough that when you lose it, you can buy another one "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

3 " I could not personally care less about whether JT Leroy turns out to be fictional or not. I find fictional people writing fiction no more or less objectionable than real people writing fiction, because it’s fiction, "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

4 " Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult). "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

5 " And before that, there was, oh, I don’t know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It’s always something. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

6 " Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

7 " Years working at a newspaper. You learn to write fast and reasonably good and in a manner which does not require substantial editing. Or your editors and copyeditors stab you to death and hang your corpse in the newsroom as a warning to the other staff writers. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

8 " Although, honestly, watching authors fistfight is like watching geese play Jeopardy. There’s a lot of honking and squawking but no one ever gets to what they’re supposed to be doing. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

9 " Maybe it’s just that no one knows how to conduct a real literary feud anymore, online or otherwise. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

10 " I am not Death. I am killing; I am the verb, I am the action, I am the performance. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

11 " some of your writer friends will do better than you, by whatever standard you decide “better” counts as. And you know what you should do? Be happy for them, you neurotic twit. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

12 " Isn’t that weird?” I said. “All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we’re all different, but we all drink coffee. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

13 " What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

14 " The three rules of writing: 1. It’s Work. 2. It’s Work. 3. Surprise! It’s Work. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

15 " Hello,” David said. “I’m David Sawyer, and I’m running for the third district council seat. Can I talk to you about my platform?” “Oh, yes, please,” said Fuin. “And I will also talk to you. About your soul. And how it is forfeit to the spears of the Penetrating Gods.” “I’m sorry,” David said. “I’m not a follower of your religion.” “That’s the best part!” Fuin said. “You don’t have to be! You’ll still be impaled! Isn’t it wonderful. Come in, come in. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

16 " I find some amusement at the idea of you as a child, of you reaching no higher than my waist, of you big-eyed, and your big head wobbly on your neck, looking at the world with curiosity if not comprehension, needing to wait years to know enough to know how little you know. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

17 " With sentences, shorter is better than longer: "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

18 " the assumption that simple = stupid. But it’s not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

19 " And of course, just like in the movies, as soon as you mention that life is good, that means something needs to come by and sqaut one out on your life. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle

20 " I’m a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism. "

― John Scalzi , Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle