Merril Quotes & Sayings

Reality is bizarre enough for me. — Jane Lane

We have met the Alien and it is us. — Judith Merril

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future. — Alfred Bester

I always felt that I had a childhood. I went to regular school whenever I wasn't working. At one point, I wanted to be a marine biologist. — Kim Fields

Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons. — John DiMaggio

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina. — Karl Schroeder

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied. — M.J. Rose

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril

Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is. — Judith Merril

The blue of daylight
fades and chills as the sun sinks
beneath clouds of fire. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We only really learn in conversation after sex. — Judith Merril

With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive. — Merril Hoge

There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals — Judith Merril