172 Quotes by David Brin

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.