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Jerry Pournelle Quotes
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
And thats another piece of advice Ill give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and Im not convinced we changed it for the best. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. Its not like theyre a bunch of idiots. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I dont think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that youre going to throw away. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isnt it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And whats the recruiting drive? - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because its just so damn hard to make it look like the future. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Somebodys always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I dont talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
The Aztecs believe they started up in whats now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. Thats a weird legend. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. Theres always something better to do, like Ive got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. Theres always something better to do. Going to a writers club? - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Were basically after Joes beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Dont join writers clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothings changed. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now its all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. - Jerry Pournelle Quotes
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