Books Quote by Robert J. Sawyer Download Open image “When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.” — Robert J. Sawyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Far First Future Started Time Were
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future. — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
