Quotes by Tim Pratt - Page 1

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Competent
Short Story
Writer
Good Better Getting Better
Short
Getting Better
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I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Carolina
Eastern
North Carolina
Nowhere
Border
Rural
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Kings
Government
Spring
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But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Information
Knowing
Too Much
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I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Generate
Spontaneously
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I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Accounting
Elevation
Tolerance
Drinks
Drowned
Tub
Workshop
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Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Ancient
Carpet
Cleaning
Mixing
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Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Borders
Crossed
Discover
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Family lore says I was named after the song 'Timothy' by The Buoys, a lovely little ditty about three guys who get trapped in a cave-in and resort to cannibalism; they eat Timothy.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Cannibalism
Lovely
Trapped
Named
Lore
Resort
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Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
Tim Pratt / Writer
Agree
Calm
Calm Down
Stories
Change Important People
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When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Enjoyed
Historical
Mood
Novel
Approximately
Detective
Period
John
Several
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It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.
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Anthology
My Time
Commissioned
Editor
Occasionally
Short Stories
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B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Jobs
Darkness
Firsts
Ladders
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As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Blue
Borders
Both Sides
California
Carolina
Literal
Misty
North Carolina
Sides
Tennessee
Mountains
Dramatically
Older
Line
North
Refugees
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Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Vacation
Monsters
Terrible
Visiting
Time Good Mind
Time Good Culture
Banks
Conflicts
Fictional
Hard Time
Places
Tend
Worlds
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I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Smarter
Worthwhile
Agreed
Dumber
Grown-Ups
Smarts
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I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I'm getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Cream
Drafting
Eating
Hate
Ice
Ice Cream
Logic
My Own
Puzzles
Sex
Tired
Words
Pretty
Bookshelf
Organizing
Round
Perfectly
Reviewing
Second
Though
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If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Love
Romantic
War
Giants
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