Lawrence Watt-Evans quotes

Lawrence Watt-Evans quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.”
-- Lawrence Watt-Evans

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“There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.”
-- Lawrence Watt-Evans

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“There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.”
“Tomer: â€œWhat's this?â€ Cabinet: â€œWt's ths?â€ Wedge: â€œCabinet.â€ Tomer: â€œI know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.â€ Cabinet: â€œ...ts tlkngâ€ Janson: â€œOh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.â€ Tycho: â€œHe bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.â€ Hobbie: â€œNever bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”
“I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.”
“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black
“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.”
“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”

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