Dozois Quotes

#1. All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Patrick McCabe

#2. It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

Nick Ferguson

#3. To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

Gardner Dozois

#4. A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. There's no lack of void.

Samuel Beckett

#6. I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

Samantha Shannon

#7. When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Sigmund Freud

#8. There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

J. C. Chandor

#9. I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

Gardner Dozois

#10. The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

Gardner Dozois

#12. An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Gardner Dozois

#13. A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

John Steinbeck

#14. When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.

Gardner Dozois

#15. Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

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#16. What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

Gardner Dozois

#17. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

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#18. When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

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#19. Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

Gardner Dozois

#20. The girl may want more honesty. However, most of us want a comfortable life.

Gardner R. Dozois