Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
differences training stranger
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
religious practice attention
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.
moving men
Men always fear things which move by themselves.
silent determine humans
To determine if you're human. Be silent.
mind dying companion
A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.
book writing years
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.
greatness feelings myth
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.
enemy easier admire
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
mistake hero problem
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
quality definitions creation
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.
predictions absolutes completion
Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!
lonely hate broken
A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.
agony snakes skins
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
responsibility army people
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.