Writer Quotes by David Brin

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

Anything done in secret is more likely to result in terrible errors.

— David Brin

“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin…

— David Brin

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

— David Brin

“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.…

— David Brin

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

— David Brin

Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.

— David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

— David Brin

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

— David Brin

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.…

— David Brin

Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did…

— David Brin

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",…

— David Brin

“Snow and soot covered the ancient tree's broken branches and seared bark. It wasn't dead, not quite yet. Here and there tiny shoots of…

— David Brin

“As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave . . . an itch, a…

— David Brin

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

— David Brin