Leigh Brackett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot.
-- Leigh Brackett

#Writing #Reality #People
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.
-- Leigh Brackett

#Simple #Ignorant #Witchcraft
Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.
-- Leigh Brackett

#Cheer #Love Is #Measles
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.
-- Leigh Brackett

#War #Surrender #Circumstances
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful allyit is.
-- Leigh Brackett

#Powerful #Judging #Judge Me
David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?
-- Leigh Brackett

#Stars #Men #Space

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.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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.
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Leigh Brackett famous quotes

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