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Alastair Reynolds Quotes

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: March 13, 1966

Topics

Travel I Am Believe Story Possible

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

John Banville

Go Never University Arrogant Because

People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'

John Lewis

Walk People Me Doctor Cry Say

No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of that in D.C. You're never gonna get love in D.C. If you get love in D.C., then you're a special person.

Shy Glizzy

Love Unity You Person Special Never

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

Romeo Santos

Music Language Write First Musically

I'm doing real journalism.

Mike Cernovich

Famous You Nobody How Tells

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

Jason Alexander

Work Easy Heartbeat Because Again

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Joseph Brodsky

Friend Time Enemy

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Chinua Achebe

Food Yourself Door Color Someone

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Chuck Jones

Fog Color Confused Should Separated

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bob Newhart

History Humor American Important

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

Annalee Newitz

People Environmental Energy Reach

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

Susan Wiggs

Learning Patience Time Dance Talent