David Gerrold Quotes - Page 2

• Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

  David Gerrold

  War, People, Havens

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics. ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.

  David Gerrold

  Jobs, Hate, Yesterday

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• Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

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  Determination, Velocity, Morality

  David Gerrold (2014). “Starhunt: A Star Wolf Novel”, p.82, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Lo más fácil es montar la avalancha en la dirección que ya lleva.

  David Gerrold

  Avalanchas

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.90, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

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  Peligroso

  David Gerrold (2002). “The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son”, p.106, Macmillan

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• Incompetency fed on itself.

  David Gerrold

  Federales

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.82, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

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  Civilization, Jail, People

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.96, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Entrenamiento

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• Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

  David Gerrold

  Over You, Ability, Adolescence

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• Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

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  Death, Rushing, Black

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.107, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

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  Kissing, Boys, Hands

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• I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

  David Gerrold

  Eye, Frustrated, Special

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

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  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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• A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

  David Gerrold

  Art, Lice, Acts Of Love

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• I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

  David Gerrold

  Imagination, Important, Want

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.114, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• La avalancha del tiempo lo arrasa todo. Cada instante individual se precipita en el olvido, ahogando la obliteración del instante inmediatamente anterior, y luego también desaparece bajo la embestida del siguiente, y del siguiente, y del siguiente. Cuando la avalancha ha pasado estremecida durante el tiempo suficiente, la percepción del pasado evoluciona. Los acontecimientos lejanos van más allá de la mera historia y adquieren el peso de la leyenda.

  David Gerrold

  Time, Past, Long

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• Los cincuenta son una época apacible, un tiempo de sueño tranquilo entre dos ráfagas ruidosas de años, un tiempo azul y blanco lleno de dulces días amarillos, música y recuerdos de olores brillantes.

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  Sweet, Memories, Sleep

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• You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

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  Death, Men, Way

  David Gerrold (2011). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

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  Estrellas, Escribir, Pensar

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• What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

  David Gerrold

  Children, War, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.

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  Stars, Book, Adventure

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• When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

  David Gerrold

  War, Writing, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

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  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations.

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  Writing, Air, Smell

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• I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.

  David Gerrold

  Europe, Ideas, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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