In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn’t it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what’s the recruiting drive? Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
Somebody’s always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don’t talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There’s always something better to do, like I’ve got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There’s always something better to do. Going to a writer’s club? Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
We’re basically after Joe’s beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
