“I’ll be in Detroit and I’ll be jogging in the morning, police. Me and Rashaan will be two Black men jogging. We’re not robbing anything. Please don’t shoot us accidentally as we’re jogging the streets of Detroit. You have to announce these things, you know, or you’re in trouble.”
- Richard Pryor, Tonight Show, May 4, 1977
“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin
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What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”?
Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris
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"The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries."
- Freeman Dyson
On board Reliant, Khan Singh shut off communications to Regulus I and stretched back in his chair. Not quite what he had foreseen, but a most satisfying climax, nonetheless.
Thank you, Star Trek II novelization for confirming that Khan does indeed cum when Kirk shouts his name into the ether.
War is the sea he swims in and the air he breathes. Without his armour his armour means as much to him as Hester here does to me.
His soul is in those pieces of metal.
His Dark Materials ‘Armour’
David Lynch on directing with kindness.
So you’ve coalesced with some sort of continental intercolonial clown posse.
Stewart, MoDean 2
Woah. Timothy Zahn, are you me?
I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it is. But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic” – I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news.
–Timothy Zahn, interviewed by TheForce.Net, 2008
What a place! What a situation! What kind of man in his right mind would elect a known criminal to a higher branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett (via breadcrumbsandstars)
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett (via breadcrumbsandstars)
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