David Brin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Ego

• If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

  David Brin

  Writing, Family Friends, Family Life

• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

• There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

  Writing, Doubt, Training

• I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

  David Brin

  Writing, Trilogies

• My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

  David Brin

  Character, Writing, Ideas

• My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

  David Brin

  Writing, Surfing, Literature

• I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

  David Brin

  Writing, Character, Feelings

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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