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John Scalzi Quotes

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

John Scalzi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1969

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People Writing Short Tolerance Find

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

Jim Harrison

Work Good Trust Good Work Believe

I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!

Jerry Garcia

Me Writing Song Think Go Mean

I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.

Jeremy Scott

Great Think Summer Barbie Why She

When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway.

John M. Grunsfeld

People Trail West West Coast Left

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

John Sununu

Discipline Better Cage Politicians

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

Trudie Styler

Eating House Pretty Our Major

Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

Tove Jansson

Want Damn More Vomit Hear Those

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Mike Duke

Culture School Growing Up Think Up

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Joseph Addison

Faith Great Measure Atheist Greater

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

Chung Mong-joon

Peace War Cold Lesson Cold War Hold

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Alison Gopnik

Learning Children Slow Learn Skill

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Wynonna Judd

Myself Me Years Able Like Took