Jack Dann quotes

Jack Dann quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.”
-- Jack Dann

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“I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.”
-- Jack Dann

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“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
“Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.”
“The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.”
“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”

Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1937). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.5, Library of Alexandria
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”

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