Vonda N. McIntyre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
-- Vonda N. McIntyre

#Reading #Firsts #Fiction
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . . The biological speculation rings with truth and possibility, the terraforming-gone-wrong creates an environment of delicious creepiness, and Creasy's imaginatively-constructed universe draws the reader in, to follow Edie and Finn's quest for freedom.
-- Vonda N. McIntyre

#Song #Watches #Gone
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
-- Vonda N. McIntyre

#Hope #Mistake #Ambition

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.
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Vonda N. McIntyre famous quotes

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