L. Sprague de Camp Professions : WriterBorn : November 27, 1907Died : November 6, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by L. Sprague de Camp In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. L. Sprague de Camp story-writerswritingcharacter There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. L. Sprague de Camp brainwritingchildren It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. L. Sprague de Camp prophetdoepay The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. L. Sprague de Camp engineeringstrugglemen Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise. L. Sprague de Camp classtryingworld Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up. L. Sprague de Camp togetherwatermoving Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
