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Jerry Pournelle Quotes

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Better Roses Chair Down

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

People Me Thought Always Room About

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

Life Day Support Chance Find Living

Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.

Anger War America Israel Been

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

People Environmental Blame Person

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Truck Golf Him Hire Got He

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

Best You Venture Capital Venture Few

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

People Trees Plain Few Resemble

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

Music Technology Best Words Book

I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.

Girl Saying Understand Never Means

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

Action Political Cannot Hostage Ends

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

Great Just Shows Does CBS Programs

A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

Change Time Shoes Haircut You Look

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