Citas de Connie Willis

• I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

  Connie Willis

  Lists, Groceries, Heard

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• And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

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  Writing, London, Imaginary

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• I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

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  Book, Fiction, May

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• I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

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  Dames, Plot, Christie

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• When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

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  Queens, Hate, Ideas

  Connie Willis (2011). “Impossible Things”, p.89, Spectra

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• Los escritores son demasiado neuróticos para ser felices.

  Connie Willis

  Writing, Neurotic

  "Gratitude" by Abigail Bereola, therumpus.net. October 08, 2013.

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• Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

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  Pensamiento, Elementos, Literatura

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• ¿Por qué sólo las cosas horribles se convierten en modas? Yo pensaba. Los ojos en blanco, la Barbie y el budín de pan. ¿Por qué nunca la tarta de queso con chocolate o pensar por uno mismo?

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  Eye, Thinking, Bread Pudding

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.119, Spectra

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• Ayudarías si pudieras, ¿verdad, chico?". Le dije. "No es de extrañar que te llamen el mejor amigo del hombre. Fiel, leal y verdadero, compartes nuestras penas y te alegras con nosotros de nuestros triunfos, el mejor amigo que hemos conocido, mejor amigo de lo que merecemos. Nos has acompañado en las buenas y en las malas, en el campo de batalla y en el hogar, negándote a abandonar a tu amo incluso cuando la muerte y la destrucción te rodeaban. Ah, noble perro, eres el espejo peludo en el que vemos reflejado nuestro mejor yo, el hombre tal y como podría ser, sin mancha de guerra o ambición, impoluto por...

  Connie Willis

  Dog, War, Lying

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.16, Bantam

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• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

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  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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• Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

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  Order, Years, Connections

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.80, Spectra

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• No hay que buscar el secreto para que la gente siga las modas, hay que buscar el secreto para que piense por sí misma. Porque en eso consiste la ciencia.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Secreto

  Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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• Un Gran Diseño que no podíamos ver porque formábamos parte de él. Un Gran Diseño del que sólo tuvimos ocasionales y fugaces vislumbres. Un Gran Diseño que abarca todo el curso de la historia y todo el tiempo y el espacio y que, por alguna razón insondable, eligió elaborar sus diseños con gatos, mazos de croquet y cortaplumas, por no hablar del perro. Y una horrible obra de arte victoriana. Y a nosotros.

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  Dog, Cat, Space

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

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  Revenge, Pride, Wrath

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• One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

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  Dog, Morning, Past

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam

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• Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

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  Cat, Threat, Knows

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam

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• Creo que todo lo que hay que saber sobre el mundo se puede aprender en el coro de una iglesia.

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  Church Choir, Needs, World

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• There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

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  Race, Drs, Moments

  Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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• Barbie es una de esas modas cuya popularidad te hace perder toda fe en la raza humana.

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  Race, Barbie, Fads

  Connie Willis (1997). “Bellwether”, Spectra

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• La gente compra cualquier cosa en los mercadillos", dije. En la feria benéfica de los niños evacuados, una mujer compró una rama de árbol que se había caído sobre la mesa.

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  Children, People, Tree

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• Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.

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  Children, Play, Littles

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• Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

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  Tired, People, Listening

  Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

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• If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

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  Kings, Swans, Sides

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.143, Bantam

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• En realidad, los escritores no tienen por qué escribir sobre sus propias obras. O se envanecen diciendo cosas como: 'Mi brillantez es posiblemente más evidente en mi deslumbrante relato corto, "La Hipotenusa Cookiepants"'. O se ponen insoportablemente cursis: Mi gato Ootsywootums me ha dado todas mis mejores ideas, ¿verdad, squeezums?

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  Writing, Cat, Conceited

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

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  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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