“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?” WorldHumansHappensTurnsLeftCitiesStonesHillsMudCrowdedNests Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?” IfsWorldWayHumansEndsMightFormUniverseStuffKnownMiddleFitShapesEternalProfoundChaosActiveTinyFamiliarSimplestObserversPhysicistChaoticBendingBeginning Middle And EndFolktales Book:Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light Source: Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light
“The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.” MenWorldWarHeavenHorrorImitationMudWire Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingImportantStoriesLessonsHardestShort StoryRewritingImportant Lessons Author:Tad Williams
