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

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

- Harry Turtledove

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

- 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

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

- 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