Best Jerry Pournelle Quotes
- We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before… Dead
- There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling… Active
- And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want… Anderson
- Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. Asimov
- Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times… Best
- I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was… America
- One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's… Distributors
- So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn… Answer
- Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of… All
- We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as… Beer