Robert J. Sawyer
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Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity. ROBERT J. SAWYER Honor does not have to be defended. ROBERT J. SAWYER Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. ROBERT J. SAWYER I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book a... ROBERT J. SAWYER Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligibl... ROBERT J. SAWYER There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A... ROBERT J. SAWYER When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ... ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese... ROBERT J. SAWYER Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m... ROBERT J. SAWYER The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that... ROBERT J. SAWYER General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. ROBERT J. SAWYER You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. ROBERT J. SAWYER Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. ROBERT J. SAWYER How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor... ROBERT J. SAWYER By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m... ROBERT J. SAWYER My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t... ROBERT J. SAWYER The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop... ROBERT J. SAWYER You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made... ROBERT J. SAWYER One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition t... ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the W... ROBERT J. SAWYER I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. ROBERT J. SAWYER No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th... ROBERT J. SAWYER It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax'... ROBERT J. SAWYER That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch... ROBERT J. SAWYER If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f... ROBERT J. SAWYER I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al... ROBERT J. SAWYER Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o... ROBERT J. SAWYER A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and... ROBERT J. SAWYER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ... ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl... ROBERT J. SAWYER George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca... ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce... ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. ROBERT J. SAWYER Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ... ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'... ROBERT J. SAWYER In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop... ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route. ROBERT J. SAWYER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. ROBERT J. SAWYER Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. ROBERT J. SAWYER DIANE SAWYER AVERY SAWYER CHARLES SAWYER CHARLES SAWYER DIANE SAWYER DIANE SAWYER DIANE SAWYER Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space. ANDRENA SAWYER DIANE SAWYER DIANE SAWYER I hear winter's really cold up here. CEDRIC SAWYER The Lord was good to us. 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I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart... 
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of... 
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off ... 
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by ... 
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thin... 
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca... 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer ... 
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ... 
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people l... 
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... 
Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not... 
The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. 
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l... 
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l... 
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#... 
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based ... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm... 
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other peo... 
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Bu... 
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... 
With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hopi... 
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is a... 
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... 
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies m... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and try... 
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way t... 
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way ... 
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice ca... 
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... 
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspec... 
If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You hav... 
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one si... 
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl... 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... 
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination. 
I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I ... 
Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. 
It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ... 
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce... 
Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hop... 
I think insomnia is a sign a person is interesting. 
If guilt was an object, I knew it was a stone that sat right on you, pinning you down, showing no me... 
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. 
To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run n... 
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. 
Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon. 
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first th... 
The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes... 
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. 
Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board. 