American - Author | May 10, 1969 -
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
John Scalzi
LifeEnjoy LifeEnjoyYouNeed
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
GoodPeopleThinkOpinionsPlace
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
FutureTechnologyEyesTimeManNew
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.
MyselfSimpleWordsMindThinkMean
Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
WorkGoodTimeBestStepPeople
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
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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.
IdentityBelieveFindBetrayal
I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
I AmWalkingCaliforniaYesUpAm
I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
GovernmentYouI CanCheeseTaste
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.
ScienceTimePeopleI CanCrimeSee
I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.
OpenAnythingKeepBucketList
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
SayWantWillSalesBecauseBlog
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