As a writer of science fiction, I draw inspiration from the silent mentors of my past: George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. Like all writers of fiction, I hope to pass on something I have said that others will use as a compass for themselves.
Reading George Orwell’s 1984 for the first time in the 70’s was pure fiction to me at the time, but like all Science Fiction they are just facts not yet experienced. Getting older is thought to be a curse, but the curse is seeing more clearly than when in youth. You can’t ignore the past and expect a miracle outcome, only a failure to trip over it later in life.
Some of my favorite notable quotes from these authors:
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” – George Orwell
“The people will believe what the media tells them to believe” – George Orwell
“We can evade reality but not the consequences of evading reality” – Ayn Rand
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide” – Ayn Rand
“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well” – Ursula K. Le Quin
“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them” – Ursula K. Le Quin
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