Potent Quotes

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'm no writer. But if I were, it seems to me I'd want to poke my head up every once in a while and take a look around. See what's going on. It's life, Jake; you can miss it if you don't open your eyes.

-Avery Brooks

[Madner Kami]

‘Is it true that your life passes before your eyes before you die?’
YES.
‘Ghastly thought, really.’ Rincewind shuddered. ‘Oh, gods, I’ve just had another one. Suppose I am just about to die and this is my whole life passing in front of my eyes?’
I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED ‘LIVING’.

A conversation between Rincewind and Death.

[clearspira]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

[Madner Kami]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

Wait, are you implying that Fuzzy actually thinks that this is a quote of someone of high mind, who makes a meta-comment about the easy access people have to media and the distracting influence it has on us, instead of someone at the height of his hubris who thinks that the people of ye olden times did nothing but twiddle their thumbs all day and making an ass out of himself?

[clearspira]

I have never read a truer and more profound quote than this. And lets be honest, most of us have been guilty of this at one point or another: ''Its alright, its someone else's problem''.

[clearspira]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

Wait, are you implying that Fuzzy actually thinks that this is a quote of someone of high mind, who makes a meta-comment about the easy access people have to media and the distracting influence it has on us, instead of someone at the height of his hubris who thinks that the people of ye olden times did nothing but twiddle their thumbs all day and making an ass out of himself?

Yes

[Madner Kami]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

Wait, are you implying that Fuzzy actually thinks that this is a quote of someone of high mind, who makes a meta-comment about the easy access people have to media and the distracting influence it has on us, instead of someone at the height of his hubris who thinks that the people of ye olden times did nothing but twiddle their thumbs all day and making an ass out of himself?

Yes

Huh.

- Unclear origin, universally quoted by people in befuddled dumbfoundedness since time immemorial

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

Wait, are you implying that Fuzzy actually thinks that this is a quote of someone of high mind, who makes a meta-comment about the easy access people have to media and the distracting influence it has on us, instead of someone at the height of his hubris who thinks that the people of ye olden times did nothing but twiddle their thumbs all day and making an ass out of himself?

Yes

It's not so much an attempt at philosophical profoundity as a relatable gripe from another struggling writer. Didn't realize this would be such a controversial hot take.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

A thread for your favorite quotes that didn't get into your sig. I'll start with one on writing, which I am really feeling right now.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

I don't get it. Is he basically saying that he has no self-control at all? And is that a genuine insult against Dickens? Because considering I have never heard of this guy at all, I would say that him insulting one of literature's all time greats is pretty rich.

Unless he got down to specifics, I don't see it necessarily as a personal insult to Dickens as a writer. Can you elaborate or pinpoint which passage carries with it an inference regarding self control?

I get what the guy is talking about, and I do have thoughts on transformative convention, but it is kinda amusing. For what it's worth, he does produce Veep, which is a considerable comeback for Julia Dreyfus.