The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to … - Joe Haldeman
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to …
- Joe Haldeman
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about… - Joe Haldeman
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about…
Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene gl… - Joe Haldeman
Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene gl…
[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me. - Joe Haldeman
[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers. - Joe Haldeman
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. - Joe Haldeman
Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first quest… - Joe Haldeman
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first quest…
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study gene… - Joe Haldeman
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study gene…
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. - Joe Haldeman
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.
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