All Quotes By Tag: Fantasy-books

“Once you become a known writer, you will not have bad books anymore. You will only have less good books than the good ones.”

“Pain was fleeting. Death was forever.”

“A last, despairing thought shot through Aliya’s mind, Is this it? I don’t want to die! I want to live! Then everything went dark.”

“Tis a miserable thing to turn a soul into something it is not.”

“Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost”

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you’re at it? Go ahead. Nothing’s off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It’s easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you’re supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”