"What I do not want to write is…" — Joan D. Vinge
"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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39 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge has 39 quotes on this site.
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most…
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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with…
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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their…
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Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more…
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre…
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More Didactic Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children.…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history…
— Paul Copan
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall…
— Otto Rank
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
— John Shirley
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They…
— Stanley Kubrick
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We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs…
— Erik Satie
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A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.
— Edmund Morgan
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do…
— Peter Greenaway
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well…
— George Bernard Shaw
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