Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

Joe Meno

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I love looking back at my old pictures and pictures of my grandma and my mom and see how they expressed themselves at different parts of their lives, and it just tells an interesting story, so why not play around?

Jillian Hervey

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There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.

John Gurdon

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I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

John Catsimatidis

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I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

Melissa Leo

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Maya Angelou

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

John Podhoretz

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I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

Stevie Wonder

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As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

Mary Quant

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There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Mike White

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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

Clement Attlee

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The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

Clive Thompson

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