Eric Brown Quotes (31 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

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,

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

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

We have been looking at this as an opportunity to improve the quality and efficacy of medical services if the healthcare industry would adopt the tech that every other industry has already adopted. The world is out there with technology and only 15 percent of doctors use a computer to record medical information.

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

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.

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.

GULFPORT - 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.

Part of the reason for the B2B backlash of a year and a half ago was a disappointment from revenues associated with valuations of companies that overestimated their own success. That's not to say that the impact of these process changes were overblown. Co

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.

'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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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.