Robert A. Heinlein on Writing
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein and filed under "writing" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #76296: "From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit."
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #131343: "Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy."
5 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein on Writing
"From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit."
"Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy."
"History is never surprising—after it happens."
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it’s done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
"At fourteen months he began speaking in sentences, short and of his own structure, but sentences. The subjects of his conversation, or, rather, his statements, were consistently egocentric. Normal again—no one expects an infant to write essays on the beauties of altruism."