Quotes About Technical Writers

#1. There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

S.A. Reid

#2. I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

Ted Chiang

#3. Don't be a pussy. don't shy away from a situation just because it's tough. if you need to protect the one you love or things are tough at work ... pin those ears back and remember who the fuck you are.

Duff McKagan

#4. Buddhism and science share a fundamental reluctance to postulate a transcendent being as the origin of all things.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science, was bored stiff by technical details.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

Andy Stanley

#7. For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Alison Lurie

#10. The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Robert Littell

#11. The fact is that as writers we need to make our
mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark. It is that simple; it is that difficult.

Suyog Ketkar