Eric Brown Quotations

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Vendors looking at health care will find ample opportunities to open new relationships.

I felt I found something I was good at.

I find it hard to take straight fantasy, as I don't believe in magic or the occult, and hard SF leaves me cold because I don't like reading pages and pages of science or scientific extrapolation at the expense of characters and emotion.

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

If AOL is out to reach a really broad market, my guess is this is about a new Internet appliance in the home that would connect to your TV, that this has more to do with a set-top box and less to do with computers,

If AOL isn't at the table and an active participant in a bunch of people making standards -- that in many ways don't matter.

I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years.

I think that to a large extent the reality of instant messaging is AOL and ICQ.

Jamie was good in letting us know he wants to help as much as he can.

Our students have benefited greatly from the enhanced curriculum made possible by the generous Texas Education Agency grant.

My running joke is that the electronic record has been five years away for 20 years. What has changed is that now someone says that this is no longer a health problem; it is an economic problem.

It does appear that I've been doing nothing but scribbling, but some of the books were written a while back, and have only just gone into print.

Microsoft wants to own the real estate even of the AOL members,

You'll be less likely to be in the middle of a food fight between your doctor and your insurance company.

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

We're encouraging eligible donors to schedule an appointment in the coming days ... and to keep that appointment.

Whenever a player is in my care, I'm responsible. I'm a two-year program so it's somewhat different because our kids commute. But it could be a game, practice or an overnight trip in a hotel, restaurant, a gas station, or on the bus or in a plane, and if they're with me, I'm looking after them and they know the rules. I have zero control on the weekend, and that's when it's up to the parents to step in and see that they are doing the right thing.

When I woke up this morning, it took me awhile to realize I wasn't still on the roof. I just keep reliving it in my dreams.

When someone sends me a message, I have five identities and five memberships. I would like to have one membership but see buddies in all of my systems,

What motivates people, other than money, is satisfaction. Java as a technology is a skill that is satisfying, and those who work in it tend to work on the fun projects. They have a keen eye for the business impact of their efforts. So spinning them off into Internet-commerce groups is a good idea.

There's lots of competition, but there are limited spots to fill,

People hate the commercialization of the holidays. They are looking for a better quality of life, not more stuff. We've done the survey for the past four years, and the results are fairly consistent.

The music is really bigger than us, because it did have an impact on people. This is something we can have forever. It doesn't have to be the same struggling band situation, which is hard to maintain.

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

AOL says people want a managed online experience, and the way to do that is through Java. And for Sun this would be a tremendous opportunity because it would the first time they'll be getting Java into the home.

The boys are playing pretty well. Our strength is probably our line play and we have some quality backs. It's just a fun group of kids to coach. They seem to know what it takes to win.

It will hit clubs with a bigger bill at the beginning of next season. Most clubs order their shuttles around July and August. It will start to hit them then.

It may not be a hidden dominant force today, but over the next several years, real-time collaborative services are going to flood into corporate networks,

I don't write hard SF - that is, technology-driven science fiction. I don't read this stuff, either. I like to read, and to write, SF about people, the consequences of technological and social change on individuals or groups of individuals. Fantasy and hard SF aren't about these things.

For the foreseeable several years, you'll just have the instant-messaging client, as opposed to a function within an application. It will take a while for that type of general-purpose widget to be used,

For someone from like The Bahamas to get a shot, and there is that possibility, they would have to be in the gym just about every single day, working out, practicing and playing and try to absorb everything their coach tells them.

You usually don't have five (captains), but those five lead the way for us.