John C. Wright
Born on 22 October 1961 in Chula Vista, John C. Wright began what would become a career spanning two distinct creative fields, science fiction and fantasy, as well as a separate profession in law.
Wright was educated at St. John's College and later at the College of William & Mary. Alongside his development as a writer, he trained as a lawyer, giving him a professional background that runs parallel to his literary output. As a novelist working in the English language, he has produced fiction in both the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he holds citizenship in the United States.
His work as a novelist in the science fiction and fantasy genres forms the core of his literary identity. The authorized bibliographic label assigned to him — "Wright, John C. (John Charles), 1961-" — reflects the dual nature of his career as both a writer and a legal professional, situating him within American literary and professional culture. His origins in Chula Vista and his education at two distinct academic institutions mark the biographical coordinates of a writer who has worked across genre fiction throughout his career as a novelist.
Quotes by John C. Wright
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses.
Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from.
What if they found a trapdoor out of this dead universe? A hole? A black hole? A place where the tyranny of time and space couldn’t reach?
The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.
Son, different rules apply during the End of the World.” I did not know what to say to that.
Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.
So it is not the danger that creeps people out. It is something else. Something uncanny. An aura of madness. Even with his face hidden, I could see Enmeduranki had it.
The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols ‘abstract’ complexity from observed objects.
Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest.” His.