41 Quotes by Robert Reed

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    I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

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    Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

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    To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

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    It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

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    Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

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    I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

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    A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

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    A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

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