Robinette Quotes

#1. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#2. Perfection is different to every viewer.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#3. The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#4. The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.'

Kathy Giusti

#5. Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis; ...

Muriel Spark

#6. Failure is that from which we learn, Successes are nothing more than a proper mixture of luck and timing.

Daniel Robinette

#7. I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#8. ...you must not depreciate the power of well-fitted breeches upon a lady's admiration.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#9. It's a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#10. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#11. Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Melody Robinette

#12. One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in doing it.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#13. If you don't know by now, you own me, heart, mind, body, and soul

Mary Robinette Kowal

#14. But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is,

Kathleen Brooks

#15. She sorted through the mail and held one elegant, hot-pressed envelope out to Jane. "Here is one for David. Would you prefer me to leave it here, or have it sent over to him?

Mary Robinette Kowal

#16. He thinks I should go." My chest hurt even considering it. But I couldn't stop thinking about the mission. "He knows it's the only way I'll get back into space.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#17. Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#18. Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

Warren Buffett

#19. I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#20. There then passed a period of time in which Jane said many unutterable things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#21. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

#22. Mama! They must take ship. It is an island. One does not simply walk into Murano.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#23. Jane shared his sentiment, but was hard-pressed not to laugh at her husband's inventive turns of phrase - her favourite was "goat-licking amateur," followed closely by "mongrel's handmaiden.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#24. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Rabindranath Tagore

#25. Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#26. It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#27. It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Edmund Hillary

#28. Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people.

Louisa May Alcott

#29. It's not publishing that matters; it's not writing that matters. What matters is feeling alive while writing, washing dishes, driving, etc. Writing just gives you a solid place to land some of that God energy that is already within you.

Barbara Robinette Moss

#30. Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Melody Robinette

#31. As the family sat in the drawing room after their nuncheon,

Mary Robinette Kowal

#32. I wanted to. I wanted to get off the planet and back into space and not have to watch him die. Not have to watch him lose control of his body piece by piece.

And I wanted to stay here and be with him and steal every moment left that he had breath in his body.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#33. You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you. Even if it gets ripped away in pieces. You just hold on.

Nick Cutter

#34. Laughing, the man replied, "I've been following you, you've been following the pilgrims in front of you, and they've been following in the footsteps of a million more pilgrims before them.

Stephen Marriott