Quotes About Recognition

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the 'Kitty' books.

No person writes to win awards.

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

I like to be good. I like being good at things. I wish that was valued instead of me being 'better' than another woman who also writes things and makes movies.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.

The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.

You only seem to read in yourself what you have not.

You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.

Literary pleasure, and a sense of recognition and identification, real though they are, burn off like alcohol in the flame of the next heated moment.

Always the godfather, never the god

If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them; acknowledging

Some habits become completely automatic; others require some effort, always. What matters is to be moving in the right direction. There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves. The true aim is not to break bad habits, but to outgrow them. With the bright light of attention, we can recognize and acknowledge them, and leave them behind.

Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie