John Scalzi
John Scalzi
John Michael Scalzi IIis an American science fiction author, online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written frequently on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 May 1969
CountryUnited States of America
Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.