Quotes by John Scalzi - Page 2

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
John Scalzi / Author
Marriage
Connections
Missing
Ups & Downs
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It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.
John Scalzi / Author
Bones
Eight
Meant To Be
Funny Where Me
Meant
Finally
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There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
John Scalzi / Author
Science
Literature
Little Bit
Science Fiction
Tension
Science Movies Science Fiction
Bit
Between
Science Movies Always
Dynamic
Writers
Partly
Televised
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The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
John Scalzi / Author
Greed
Republican
Want
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I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.
John Scalzi / Author
Vision
Willing
Eyes
Parts
Replace
Rid
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Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
John Scalzi / Author
Philosophy
Political
Secret
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As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
John Scalzi / Author
Attention
Bored
Boredom
Handy
People
Pity
Tolerance
Writing
Read
Short
Low
Short Attention Span
Span
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I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.
John Scalzi / Author
Anime
Fine
Folks
Magazines
Online
Print
Reading
Traditional
Lots
Watch
Manga
Opposed
Perfectly
Wanting
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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.
John Scalzi / Author
Feel Better
Giving
People
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I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
John Scalzi / Author
Deaf
Issues
Little Bit
People
Years
Awhile
Bit
Friend
Concerns
Course
Deaf People
Mine
Talked
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I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.
John Scalzi / Author
Mother In Law
Fairly
Craft
Denigrate
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The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
John Scalzi / Author
Gang
Snacks
Steps
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I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.
John Scalzi / Author
Anonymity
Betrayal
Difficult
Facade
Huge
Identity
Online
Revealing
Indeed
Looked
Merely
Reasons
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Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
John Scalzi / Author
Genre
Humorists
Mike
Me Who Like
Ben
Writers
William
James
Molly
Robert
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By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
John Scalzi / Author
Future
Technology
Humanity
Announce
Works
By The Time
Cleaned
Itself
Creep
Eyes
Hip
Laser
Wont
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What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.
John Scalzi / Author
Being Done
Account
Adapt
Writers
Follow
Market
Saying
Trend
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When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.
John Scalzi / Author
Mark
Noon
Serious
Dictates
Everything Else
Schedule
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Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
John Scalzi / Author
Hatred
Thinking
Unique
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Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
John Scalzi / Author
People
Reading
Writing
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Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
John Scalzi / Author
Amount
Good Work
Worth Reading
Time Best Work
Best Time Work
Engage
Best Work Time
Noticed
Ultimately
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People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
John Scalzi / Author
Anime
Entertainment
Palette
Survived
Tv
Movies Start People
Larger
Manga
Options
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I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.
John Scalzi / Author
Crime
Decided
First Time
Flipped
Novel
Science Fiction
Toss
Basically
Coin
Science Time People
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People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.
John Scalzi / Author
Chickens
Disappoint
Imagine
Lighting
Magic
Next
Writing
Words
Then
Morning Your Day
Butt
Candles
Chair
Day
Formula
Inevitably
Rituals
Put
Next Morning
Repeat
Sacrificing
Saying
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.
John Scalzi / Author
Book
Commitment
Reading
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