Alastair Reynolds Quotes

I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

Jesse Ventura

SupportPartyWillNeverUpWould

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

Jeremy Podeswa

LoveMoneyDayDeathHappyBe Happy

In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad.

Megan Rapinoe

SadSportsTeamYouGayWay

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

Amy Ryan

TimeBabyDoorParentLearnBody

A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the body of the audience repeating, amplifying, each statement made by the speaker.

Amitava Kumar

InnovationNameBodyWallStreet

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

Sukarno

EndHellYouGoSayNation

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Rod Taylor

WorkFriendsDreamSellingGive

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

Ron Johnson

YouWashingtonOutsideGoingGet

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.

Martin Rees

WorkScienceVisionPerspectiveSee

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

Michael Schenker

BrotherPeopleChoicesBoatYou

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

Jaylen Brown

LifeMeBasketballMy LifeMadeHad

I find the ball, and I think, 'Where's the ball going, and where do I need to go?' It just puts me back in the game, and it's the simplest thing, but it's become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I'm right back in the game.

Christen Press

FocusMeThoughtsGameThinkFind

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