Jerry Pournelle

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

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?

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.