Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Robert Reedwas an American stage, film, and television actor, and television director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 October 1932
CountryUnited States of America
jobs fiction nebraska
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.
bystanders pages next
I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.
couple cutting effort
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.
buddhist real believe
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.
clever average mind
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.
entrepreneur community together
A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.
wonderful imagine burden
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
fiction levels century
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
unique ideas finishing
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
winning player opponents
To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.
loss intelligent past
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.
dream writing want
Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.
calling paper moments
I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.
almost meaning unlike wrote
Unlike almost every other novel, I wrote Larks for myself, meaning that it was essentially done when I first showed it to an editor.