Sfwa Quotes

#1. There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

Jerry Pournelle

#2. Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

Jerry Pournelle

#3. I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

C.J. Cherryh

#4. I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

Robert Reed

#5. I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Bette Davis

#6. Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

Leila Meacham

#7. Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

H.W. Brands

#8. It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Douglas Conant

#9. Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

Glenn Greenwald

#10. A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it.

William Peter Grasso

#11. You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

Edith Templeton

#12. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

William Hazlitt

#13. We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

Allen West

#14. The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

George Clooney

#15. But there was always so much we didn't know about people, lurking right below the surface where we couldn't see it.

Laura McHugh

#16. I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

Paul Merton

#17. I have said before that I'm not a a "curist" and I'm not an "ablist" but a "neutral" because I believe everyone has a story to tell without going to unhealthy extremes if we listened with our hearts we would learn about each others experiences.

Paul Isaacs

#18. When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.

James Tate

#19. Be a wave of peace and let it wash away all of the hatred from your heart.

Debasish Mridha