Algis Budrys quotes

  • When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

  • If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

  • You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

  • It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

  • Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

  • It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day...

  • Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

  • Wit and judgment often are at strife.

  • A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

  • There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.