List of David Gerrold Quotes

The Avalanche Of Time Sweeps Everything Before It. Every Individual Instant Hurtles Into Oblivion, Drowning Out The Obliteration Of The Instant Immediately Preceding It, And Then It Too Disappears Under The Onslaught Of The Next And The Next And The Next. When The Avalanche Has Shuddered Past For A Long Enough Time, The Perception Of The Past Evolves. Distant Events Grow Beyond Mere History And Take On The Weight Of Legend.

The Fifties Are A Peaceful Time, A Quiet Sleeping Time Between Two Noisy Bursts Of Years, A Blue And White Time Filled With Sweet Yellow Days, Music And Bright Smelling Memories.

It's Almost Always Dangerous To Be Right Too Soon.

I Think I Exist, Therefore I Exist. I Think.

A Work Of Art Is An Act Of Love. Critics Are Crab Lice.

Life Has A Peculiar Habit -- Once Established, It Stays. Sometimes It Even Thrives.

Notice How Every Science Fiction Movie Or Television Show Starts With A Shot Of The Location Where The Story Is About To Occur. Movies That Take Place In Outer Space Always Start With A Shot Of Stars And A Starship. Movies That Take Place On Another World Always Start With A Shot Of That Planet. This Is To Let You Know Where You Are. Novels And Stories Start The Same Way. You Have To Give The Reader A Sense Of Where He Is And What's Happening As Quickly As Possible. You Don't Want To Start The Story By Confusing The Reader.

Imagine Yourself In The Scene. See What There Is To Be Seen. Listen To The Sounds. Touch The World. Smell The Air. Taste It. Use All Of Your Senses. Then Evoke Those Experiences For The Reader. If You Give The Audience The Flavor, They'll Flesh Out The Moment In Their Own Imaginations.

When I Was A Kid, My Favorite Movies Were The George Pal Version Of 'war Of The Worlds,' 'them,' And 'invasion Of The Body Snatchers.' Those Movies Were Scary! They Haunted My Nightmares For Years, So When I Started Writing, I Wanted To Write A Story That Was Just As Big And Just As Scary.

What I Wish Is That People Would Look Beyond The Tribbles And See I've Written Some Other Books That I Really Would Like People To Notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, There's The Martian Child, Which Is About My Son And The Adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, Which Is My Magnum Opus, My Great Epic Story.

Theres Two Tiers Of Science Fiction: The Mcdonalds Sci-fi Like Star Trek, Where They Have An Adventure And Solve It Before The Last Commercial, And There Are Books That Once Youve Read, You Never Look At The World The Same Way Again.

My Approach To 'star Trek' Was, 'i Know Science Fiction, And I Know Screen Writing.' That Was Very Arrogant Of Me, But You Really Need To Be A Little Bit Arrogant To Think That What You Have To Say Is Good Enough To Justify The Expense Of Hundreds Of Thousands - Now Millions Of Dollars - To Make An Episode Of The Tv Show.