God gets the easiest performance reviews. - Daryl Gregory

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You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Daryl Gregory

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

God, Performance, Performance Review, Performances, Reviews

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The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

Aunt, Aunts, Parent, Parents, Substitute, Substitutes

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

Belief, Essence, Fiction, Part, Possible

The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

Drinking, Everything, Gravy, Joy, Meeting, Wonderful

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

Appalling, Process, Scary, Vaguely

I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known only by collectors, and finally a rediscovered artist who is finally recognized as a creative giant misunderstood in his own time. Then forgotten again. But if I get removed from the list, it'll probably be because there are just too many damn good writers out there, and any poll of some assortment of editors is going to come up with an equally valid, equally varied list.

Artist, Collectors, Come, Fall, List, Writing

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Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

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