For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. C. J. Cherryh More Quotes by C. J. Cherryh More Quotes From C. J. Cherryh It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. C. J. Cherryh garbage writing long Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. C. J. Cherryh men watches enemy I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do. C. J. Cherryh smart stupid people My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story. C. J. Cherryh world Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. C. J. Cherryh degrees talking reality There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two. C. J. Cherryh two believe thinking Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. C. J. Cherryh information trade moving Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! C. J. Cherryh cat curiosity ignorance Writing day and night for months… that’s hard. C. J. Cherryh months writing night Nothing's hopeless except never trying. C. J. Cherryh hopeless trying Never start a war with something you can't talk to. C. J. Cherryh war If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. C. J. Cherryh opponents smart thinking Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat. C. J. Cherryh heat devil complaining Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. C. J. Cherryh conditions biology culture Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh half average people A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this. C. J. Cherryh new-year loss inspirational Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish. C. J. Cherryh great-year new-year years Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. C. J. Cherryh lawyer doors The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. C. J. Cherryh warrior fighting home Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match? C. J. Cherryh tennis night ideas
