Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all – no one’s around to write horror stories.
– Vernor Vinge
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- Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world. – Brian K Vaughan
- Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
- He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. – Vernor Vinge
- Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. – Vernor Vinge
- Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history. – Vernor Vinge
- Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear. – Vernor Vinge
- The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I’ll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? – Vernor Vinge
- Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. – Vernor Vinge
- I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt. – Vernor Vinge
- Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies. – Thaddeus Golas
- The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
- The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. – Austin Kleon
- The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
- But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror’s defeat. – Terry Pratchett
- Horror spawns horror – Stephen King
- The Horror Writers Podcast, horror is awesome check out them. – Deyth Banger
- Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can’t exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor! – Deyth Banger
- The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it. – Glen Duncan
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Honestly…this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity. – Debora Dennis
- The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross Macdonald
- All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world – Aristotle
- History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. – Sarah Vowell
- Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly. – Dianna Booher
- We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable. – Dean Koontz
- It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters. – Pawan Mishra
- Forgiveness comes later in life, after you’ve created enough disasters of your own. – Mat Johnson
- If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
- I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones. – Talia
- It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven’t you noticed that before? – David Eddings
- Sometimes you can write about a character’s day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. – Jennifer V Clancy
- My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. – Rudy Francisco
- God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause. – Mandy Hale
- In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying. – Edgar H Schein