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Speculative fiction: the next generation
John Joseph Adams has just posted an article that first ran in the Novel and Short Story market guide with features comments by me as well as Tim Pratt, Cherie Priest, Liz Gorinsky and David Barr Kirtley:
Crystal Rain author Tobias S. Buckell says that his success came as a result of focus and goal setting, with lots of hard work and passion for writing. “I’ve seriously wanted to be a writer since I was 15, and certainly thought writing was interesting since even younger,” he says. “I have a quote on my desk by H. Jackson Brown that says “˜Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.’ I try to remember that when I complain about not having enough time to work on the things I want to achieve in life.”
Filed under the topic My Writing: Interviews with me on January 4th 2008 at 7:56 am. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.
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1. Chang on Jan 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Wow! Awesome quote! I just copied it and printed it out twice to hang about my workplace. When I get home I’ll hang it over my desk to remind me when I am wasting my allotted 24 on mindless websurfing.
2. Mary Fitz... on Jan 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
That’s a great quote!
3. Chris on Jan 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Mother Teresa didn’t have 2 kids!
And Albert Einstein’s rip-roaring bodice-ripper romance novel never found a publisher. If only he’d had the time to edit it properly!
4. Tony on Jan 4th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
That’s a great quote. I have a nice one that I made as a desktop background so that every time I turn on and turn off, and many times inbetween I see it and it inspires me:
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight, but while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night
It’s by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. Bert on Jan 7th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Your right, to hell with sleep!