Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.' ”

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending. ”

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed. ”

I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it. ”

I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am I going to have a job this time next year?' ”

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. ”

There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable. ”

My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee. ”

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. ”

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules. ”