Quotes by David Brin

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Behavior

Bizarre

Neurosis

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

Criticism

Hate

Leader

All this talk of using tax policy to ‘assess social costs’…what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

Dumb

Ideas

Wall

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Real

Simple

Stories

Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

Assumption

May

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

Believe

Skills

Writing

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Biology

Honest

Theme

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Challenges

Interesting

Trying

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Age

Doe

People

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Inspirational

Life

Mirrors

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Accountability

Age

Ambiguous

Apology

Assumption

Basketball

Behavior

Belief

Believe

Biology

Bizarre

Carpe Diem

Challenges

Character

Children

Civilization

Contamination

Corruption

Cream

Criticism

Different

Diplomats

Diverse

Doe

Doubt

Dumb

Ego

Elephants

Elusive

Emotion

Encouraging

Enlightenment

Environmentalist

Errors

Essence

Experts

Failing

Family Friends

Family Life

Favourite

Feelings

Fiction

Fighting

Floating

Fool

Hands

Hard Work

Hate

Honest

Humans

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Quotes by David Brin

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

All this talk of using tax policy to ‘assess social costs’…what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

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