John Scalzi famous quotes

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
-- John Scalzi

#Writing #Brain #Different

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
-- John Scalzi

#Ideas #Want #Treats

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
-- John Scalzi

#Action #Responsible #Imaginary

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.
-- John Scalzi

#Consciousness #Social #Stuck

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
-- John Scalzi

#People #Culture #Deaf

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
-- John Scalzi

#California #Southern #Cliche

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
-- John Scalzi

#Want #Figures

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
-- John Scalzi

#Thinking #People #Different

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.
-- John Scalzi

#Squares #Space #Internet

The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
-- John Scalzi

#Snacks #Steps #Gang

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
-- John Scalzi

#Government #Taste #Cheese

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
-- John Scalzi

#Enjoy Life #Needs #Enjoy

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
-- John Scalzi

#Book #Done #Want

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.
-- John Scalzi

#Feel Better #People #Giving

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
-- John Scalzi

#Stranger #Imagine #Empty

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
-- John Scalzi

#Inspirational #Life #Thinking

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.
-- John Scalzi

#Real #Fate #Care

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
-- John Scalzi

#Yeti #Saws

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
-- John Scalzi

#Risk #Insane

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
-- John Scalzi

#Love You #Waiting #Someone You Love

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
-- John Scalzi

#Lunch #People #Imagine

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
-- John Scalzi

#Who We Are #Discounts #Persons

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
-- John Scalzi

#Thinking #Unique #Hatred

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
-- John Scalzi

#Mind #Young #Getting Old

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
-- John Scalzi

#Fear #Lines #May

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
-- John Scalzi

#Fear #Waiting #Energy

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
-- John Scalzi

#Faces

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
-- John Scalzi

#School #Graduates #Angst

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
-- John Scalzi

#Differences #People #Facts

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
-- John Scalzi

#Stories #Goats #Worthy

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
-- John Scalzi

#Army #Two #Wife

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
-- John Scalzi

#Love #Teenager #High School

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
-- John Scalzi

#Missing #Alive #Easier

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.
-- John Scalzi

#Bugs #Said #Crew

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
-- John Scalzi

#Stars #War #People

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
-- John Scalzi

#Mean #People #Humans

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
-- John Scalzi

#Marriage #Missing #Connections

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
-- John Scalzi

#Narrative #Sooner Or Later

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
-- John Scalzi

#Writing

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
-- John Scalzi

#Flirting #Problem #Strategy

When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.
-- John Scalzi

#Book #Reading #Commitment

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
-- John Scalzi

#Greed #Want #Republican

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
-- John Scalzi

#Vision #Want #Los Angeles

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
-- John Scalzi

#Way #Threatening

Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
-- John Scalzi

#Reading #Writing #People