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I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
- John Scalzi
#Cheese
#Government
#I Can
#Taste
#You
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
- John Scalzi
#Because
#Dictate
#Say
#Want
#Will
People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
- John Scalzi
#Entertainment
#Movies
#People
#Start
I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.
- John Scalzi
#Body
#Eyes
#People
#Shoot
#Vision
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.
- John Scalzi
#Adapt
#Find
#Follow
#Trend
#Way
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
- John Scalzi
#Culture
#Deaf
#Friend
#Know
#People
I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.
- John Scalzi
#Believe
#Difficult
#Find
#Identity
Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.
- John Scalzi
#Down
#Everything
#Money
#More
#Reason
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.
- John Scalzi
#Boredom
#Find
#People
#Tolerance
#Will
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.
- John Scalzi
#Day
#Doing
#Serious
#Words
#Work
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
- John Scalzi
#Genre
#Like
#Me
#Outside
#Who
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.
- John Scalzi
#Butt
#Chair
#Day
#Morning
#Words
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
- John Scalzi
#Find
#Humor
#Science Fiction
#Science
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
- John Scalzi
#Good
#Opinions
#People
#Place
#Will
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
- John Scalzi
#Enjoy Life
#Enjoy
#Happens
#Life
#Need
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