My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
