John Scalzi Quotes
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I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
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Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
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If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.
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Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
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As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
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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.
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I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
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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.
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Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.
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It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
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Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
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The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
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I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
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Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.
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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
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Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
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Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
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Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
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Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
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I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
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I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
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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.
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If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
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If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
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I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
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Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
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Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
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