Daniel Drezner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.
-- Daniel Drezner

#Writing #Quality #Negative
One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.
-- Daniel Drezner

#Numbers #Zombie #September 11
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.
-- Daniel Drezner

#Zombie #Defense #Rising
Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.
-- Daniel Drezner

#Running #Mean #Numbers

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Daniel Drezner famous quotes

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