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

- Harry Turtledove

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

- 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

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

- 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

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but…

- Harry Turtledove

Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big…

- Harry Turtledove

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

- 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