28 Quotes by Karl Schroeder

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.

Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded."We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.

My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.

The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.