92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.