“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.”
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People Quotes — page 562 of 5018
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”
“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.”
“My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.”
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”
“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.”
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”
“People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.”
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
“I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.”
“You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.”
“Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”
“Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.”
“Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.”
“I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.”
“Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.”