22 Quotes by Harry Turtledove

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

Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.

An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

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

Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch’s men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey.

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

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.