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Jerry Pournelle


American
August 7, 1933
Journalist
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
Jerry Pournelle
Tags: Best Some Why
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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.


Jerry Pournelle
Tags: You About Think
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
Jerry Pournelle
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Jerry Pournelle
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle
Tags: Like Always Your
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.
Jerry Pournelle
Tags: You Just Up