Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Questions And Answers

  "An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

• No trilogy should have more than four books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.17, RosettaBooks

• There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Hope, Writing, Ambition

• To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Peaceful, Different

  Source: www.salon.com

• I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Competition

  Source: www.salon.com

• The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Science Fiction

  Source: www.salon.com

• A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Understanding, Feelings

  Source: www.salon.com

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