Pamela Sargent > Quotes

“Nature often allows a person only one mistake.”
― Pamela Sargent, Earthseed

“My self-imposed solitude, at first a punishment I inflicted upon myself, became a kind of solace. I was apart from the city, my only reality the thoughts inside myself. Slowly, without the distractions of other companions and the need to mold and modify my ideas in their company, I came to know my own mind and the kind of purpose I might find in my work.”
― Pamela Sargent, The Shore of Women

“The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win.”
― Pamela Sargent, Earthseed

“Your novel. Couldn’t put it down. Quite literary, but with a lot of commercial potential. Irony and yet compassion for the characters. Involved and complex while still being a real page-turner.”
― Pamela Sargent, Thumbprints

“He wanted an answer, a simple, uncomplicated set of words wrapped around an idea he could accept. His companion’s answer, however, told him there was nothing simple or uncomplicated about his question, no matter how straight-forward it might have seemed to him.”
― Pamela Sargent, The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Stories

“When you’ve been a soldier for thirty-five years you like to win battles, but you like to feel you helped bring peace, too.”
― Pamela Sargent, The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Stories