Alastair Reynolds Don’t keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn’t setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience. – Alastair Reynolds Earlier Quotes Experience Quotes Learning Quotes Polishing Quotes Rewriting Quotes Setting Quotes Start Quotes Story Quotes I despair of reality television, but I’ve never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, ‘I watch it, but I hate it.’ I’ve never met anyone who loves it. It’s like, it’s there, and we have to accept it. I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don’t sit there reading ‘New Scientist,’ putting post-it notes next to ideas.
Leon Trotsky If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. – Leon Trotsky
David Goggins When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot. – David Goggins
Jane Lindskold In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed – that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact. – Jane Lindskold
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