Quotes from John Scalzi

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Guns don't kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.