Harry Turtledove Quotes

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Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

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Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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I suspect S. F. has an individualistic, antiauthoritarian trend to it not least because so many of the people who read and write it (not all by any means, but quite a few) are innerdirected introverts who make neither good leaders nor good followers. Am I talking about myself? Well, now that you mention it, yes. But I ain't the only one, not even close.

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A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

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I see people who write characters who are loonies and make them convincing and believable, and I envy them tremendously. I don't really understand them. It's funny, because I've created my own monster. In the 'Great War' and 'American Empire' books, I'm writing the person who is the functional equivalent of Adolf Hitler. I'm inside his head — and that's a very strange place for somebody who thinks of himself as a fairly rational fellow to be. That's alarming

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People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove

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Born: June 14, 1949 (age 76)

Bio: Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, best known for alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.

Known for:

How Few Remain (1997)
The Guns of the South (1992)
Days of Infamy (2004)
Homeward Bound (2004)
The Great War: Walk in Hell (1999)

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