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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.


Daniel H. Wilson

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AUGUST WILSON I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
RAINN WILSON You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.
SLOAN WILSON I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ...
TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,...
TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden...
TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials...
TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai...
TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an...
TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki...
TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I...
TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec...
TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int...
TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea...
TAYLOR WILSON I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overse...
RAINN WILSON I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that...
RAINN WILSON The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is t...
RAINN WILSON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
RAINN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking...
RAINN WILSON I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to...
RAINN WILSON Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
RAINN WILSON