Michael Swanwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Sky
Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy
-- Michael Swanwick

#Writing #Balance #Dinosaurs
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them. 'Twould be recursive, rendering each book effectively infinite, so that no single one might be finished without reading them all. This is the infallible message of discovering on which side of the page you are on.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Book #Reading #Character
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning
-- Michael Swanwick

#Character #Mean #Creating
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Intelligent #Thoughtful #Fiction
I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Moving #Someday #Theory
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Funny #Science #Technology
It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.
-- Michael Swanwick

#Book #Principles #Ends

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.
From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.
But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

Michael Swanwick famous quotes

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