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“Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.”
-- John Scalzi

#Writing #Brain #Different
“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”
-- John Scalzi

#Ideas #Want #Treats
“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.”
-- John Scalzi

#Action #Responsible #Imaginary
“If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”
-- John Scalzi

#Consciousness #Social #Stuck
“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.”
-- John Scalzi

#People #Culture #Deaf
“I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.”
-- John Scalzi

#California #Southern #Cliche
“I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.”
-- John Scalzi

#Want #Figures
“I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.”
-- John Scalzi

#Thinking #People #Different
“Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.”
-- John Scalzi

#Squares #Space #Internet
“The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.”
-- John Scalzi

#Snacks #Steps #Gang
“I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.”
-- John Scalzi

#Government #Taste #Cheese
“Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.”
-- John Scalzi

#Enjoy Life #Needs #Enjoy
“The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.”
-- John Scalzi

#Book #Done #Want
“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.”
-- John Scalzi

#Feel Better #People #Giving
“If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
-- John Scalzi

#Stranger #Imagine #Empty
“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
-- John Scalzi

#Inspirational #Life #Thinking
“I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.”
-- John Scalzi

#Real #Fate #Care
“I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti”
-- John Scalzi

#Yeti #Saws
“I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”
-- John Scalzi

#Risk #Insane
“When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.”
-- John Scalzi

#Love You #Waiting #Someone You Love
“Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.”
-- John Scalzi

#Lunch #People #Imagine
“Donâ€™t discount that part of who he was just because you didnâ€™t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.”
-- John Scalzi

#Who We Are #Discounts #Persons
“Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.”
-- John Scalzi

#Thinking #Unique #Hatred
“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”
-- John Scalzi

#Mind #Young #Getting Old
“Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.”
-- John Scalzi

#Fear #Lines #May
“Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.”
-- John Scalzi

#Fear #Waiting #Energy
“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
-- John Scalzi

#Faces
“I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.”
-- John Scalzi

#School #Graduates #Angst
“There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.”
-- John Scalzi

#Differences #People #Facts
“The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”
-- John Scalzi

#Stories #Goats #Worthy

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