5 Quotes by Karl Edward Wagner

Writers don't have friends. Only deadlines. And cheating publishers. And meddling editors. And carping reviewers. And checks that never come when they're supposed to come, and are always short when they do come.

We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one’s cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there’s fire in his heart.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!