Quote by Harry Turtledove

“People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff”

— Harry Turtledove

Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both,…

— Harry Turtledove

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap…

— Harry Turtledove

“They were having a good time, an adventure. That was January’s dominant impression of his companions in the 509th; despite all the bitching and…

— Harry Turtledove

“He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.”

— Harry Turtledove

“Possum soup, all nice and thick with peanuts,”

— Harry Turtledove

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

— Harry Turtledove

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

— Harry Turtledove

“You know what Forrest had the nerve to do?” “Son of a bitch has the nerve to do damn near anything. That's what makes…

— Harry Turtledove

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

“He said, “You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die.” “Of…

— Harry Turtledove