Conventions Quote by China Mieville Download Open image “I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.” — China Mieville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventions Fiction Science fiction Writing
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things. — Brigid Brannagh Copy Share Image
Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention. — Blair Brown Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern… — C. D. Innes Copy Share
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share
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