Brian Stableford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.
-- Brian Stableford

#Writing #Names #People
...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.
-- Brian Stableford

#Coffee #Writing #Rejection
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.
-- Brian Stableford

#Real #Order #People
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed
-- Brian Stableford

#Years #Fantasy #Finest
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.
-- Brian Stableford

#Book #Want #Reader
Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.
-- Brian Stableford

#Dream #Might #Capable
The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.
-- Brian Stableford

#Technology #Opportunity #Discovery

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Brian Stableford famous quotes

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