L. Sprague De Camp Quotes

#1. It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." - L. Sprague de Camp

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Frank X. Barron

#3. Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

L. Sprague De Camp

#4. Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Scott Westerfeld

#5. There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

L. Sprague De Camp

#6. Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

Jon Foreman

#7. To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Those who have fresh, new ideas are always learning.

Rod Judkins

#9. Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!

Mercedes Lackey

#10. A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

Albert Einstein

#11. In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

L. Sprague De Camp

#12. The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague De Camp