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Jerry Pournelle Quotes
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Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and anderson, silverberg... We tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
And that’s another piece of advice I’ll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I’m not convinced we changed it for the best (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Heinlein never had a best - seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don’t think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
The Aztecs believe they started up in what’s now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That’s a weird legend (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
There were probably, what, 300 science - fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
We’re basically after Joe’s beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six - pack of beer would be (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it’s all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar’s Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty’s Forces (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don’t think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Somebody’s always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don’t talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn’t it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
What man has done, man can aspire to do (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn’t it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? and what’s the recruiting drive? (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
It’s the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won’t be paid if there aren’t any poor, so they’ll be sure to find some (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it’s just so damn hard to make it look like the future (Jerry Pournelle Quotes)
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