31 quotes found
Author · American · 1953
American author (born 1953)
“I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.”
“Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory”
“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”
“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”
“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”
“Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.”
“Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasnt coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen...”
“Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but...”
“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing moreplus, I knew ...”
“Well, said the frog, what are you going to do about it?Marrying Therandil? I dont know. Ive tried talking to my parents, but they wont listen, and neither will Therandil.I didnt ask what youd said ...”
“Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.”
“Thank God!" he said, and kissed her.Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.”
“Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.""Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Be...”
“Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.”
“One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.”
“You dont understand, Mairelon said dully. Kim doesnt want to marry a toff.Was that what was bothering him? Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks! Kim said wi...”
“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has b...”
“Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.”
“(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the...”
“He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement."Why should he be?" Kazul said."Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback."What difference does that make...”
“Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she tol...”
