Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The first love is the difficult love.
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.
The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.
You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure
Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.
Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.
Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.
People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.
As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'
Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.
Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.
But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.
The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.