C. J. Cherryh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Writing #Long #Garbage
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Hero #Warrior #Soldier
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Kitchen #Wells #Poisoning
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Home #Fighting #Warrior
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Moving #Information #Trade
I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Communication #Thinking #Internet
Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish....
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Years #Honor #Earth
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Inspirational #New Year #Loss
Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Doors #Lawyer
Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Forever #Enemy #Causes
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Party #Trying #Matter
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Art #Fiction #World
Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Ignorance #Cat #Curiosity
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Ceilings #Matter #Location
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words Â— if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night Â— do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Night #Ideas #Tennis
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Devil #Complaining #Heat
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Men #Enemy #Watches
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Reality #Talking #Degrees
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Culture #Biology
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Average #People #Half
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
-- C. J. Cherryh

#Smart #Thinking #Opponents

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