137 Quotes by Glen Cook

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English."[The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005]

She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?”“I don't know. The falling sickness?”“Give him some of his own soup,” somebody suggested. “Serve him right.” A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat.His eye clicked open. “What are you trying to do? Poison me? Feh! What was that? Boiled sewage?”“Your soup,” I told him.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.