"Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling……" — Stanley Schmidt
"Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance."
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20 Quotes by Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt has 20 quotes on this site.
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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story…
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent,…
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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes,…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it,…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
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More Conceal Quotes
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one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane Austen
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
— James Agate
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
— Martial
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
— Osbert Sitwell
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
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