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
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.
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.
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.
running risk becoming
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
father son extensions
What is the son but an extension of the father?
agreement wish tradition
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
belief shakes supreme
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
machinery gross ambiguous
Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
blow knives decision
Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction ... and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?
collapse trapped knows
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
peace war impossible
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.