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
reading writing differences
But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.
chance madness surprise
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
resistance helping belief
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
law understanding over-you
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
adventure errors atheism
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
evil might infinity
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
atheism storm emperor
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
compassion cry
I cry for those not yet dead.
understanding environment function
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
war sea roots
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
eye rely senses
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
children educational dull
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
time space locks
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
army police enemy
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.