"I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories."

-- A. E. van Vogt

#Self Quotes #Stories Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.”
“Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.”
“I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.”
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before”

Source : Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
“My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.”
“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”
“He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.”
“A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'”

Source : "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 4, 2012.

You may also like:

Clifford D. Simak
Writer
Frederik Pohl
Writer
Isaac Asimov
Author
John W. Campbell
Fiction writer
Lester del Rey
Author
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
Poul Anderson
Author
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer
Theodore Sturgeon
Writer