A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

- Harry Turtledove

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

- Harry Turtledove

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

- Harry Turtledove

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be w…

- Harry Turtledove

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

- Harry Turtledove

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up i…

- Harry Turtledove

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

- Harry Turtledove

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if…

- Harry Turtledove

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

- Harry Turtledove