Jerry Pournelle Quotes

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017

Topics

CoffeePeopleReadingYouRulesGo

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Jimmy Smits

YouArtistCelebrityWholeDifferent

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Jeremy Grantham

MoneyThinkToolsWorrySettleDeal

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

Jennifer Granholm

SchoolLawImpactDesireKnowWay

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Andrew Eldritch

FunPeopleHave FunEveningDoing

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Simon Callow

HeartManHumanSocialHuman Heart

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sholom Aleichem

SelfArgumentRealSingleWithout

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Louise L. Hay

FutureThinkThoughtCreatingOur

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleAmazingThinkNowDeadOut

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Boris Yeltsin

TodayTimeWritingYouI CanNow

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

Sean Bean

LifeFocusAttentionActorOutUp

I'm gonna fall back, do my thing, but goddamn, I'm going to be a tough dude to deal with.

Tyron Woodley

ToughFallBackGoingDealDude

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

LifeFearGodRedWake UpBlack

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jerry Pournelle