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Jerry Pournelle Quotes

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that’s another story Picture Quote #1

Somebody’s always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don’t talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket Picture Quote #1

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There’s always something better to do, like I’ve got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There’s always something better to do. Going to a writer’s club? Picture Quote #1

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop’s decrees of anathema Picture Quote #1

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed Picture Quote #1

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen Picture Quote #1

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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action Picture Quote #1

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you’re going to throw away Picture Quote #1

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it Picture Quote #1

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I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that’s another story (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) Somebody’s always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don’t talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There’s always something better to do, like I’ve got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There’s always something better to do. Going to a writer’s club? (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop’s decrees of anathema (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you’re going to throw away (Jerry Pournelle Quotes) We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)

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