Jeff Carlson Quotes

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Jeff Carlson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1969

Topics

LoyaltyBestMeWritingGritHuman

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

John Caudwell

WorkHomeMoneyPeopleFindIndia

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Ann Leckie

WritingRespondWouldGuideThan

Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

CreationPhonesNeedContentHere

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Steven Moffat

WritingBetterYouFindLineJust

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

Roland Martin

FaithDayThinkYouImportantGet

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Mike Shinoda

TiredWaitingNeverBandSoundJust

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Jon Meacham

HouseWhiteHubrisOddsDespair

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

Brian Tyree Henry

BeautifulEyesFeelYouSayBelief

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

Antony Sher

LovePeopleMeEnergyWhyShame

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

Pink

RespectBetterAttentionYouOut

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

Shawn Mendes

FunDoingArtistBecomeFirstOut

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Richard Russo

FunnyPeopleMeAskThingsHow

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