"I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story."

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Source : "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

Ian Rankin

#Technology Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.”
“There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 28, 2015
“The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.”
“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”
“I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.”
“Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.”
“We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.”
“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.166, Head of Zeus

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