137 Quotes by Glen Cook

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.