445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

The acquisition of power is a challenge, the consolidation of it greater still, but the mettle and method of testing power's boundaries ultimately decides if it is fed to excess or starved to extinction.

Some see solitude as loneliness. Others see it as a foetal state from which to blunder out into the world. I see it as a breathing space for contemplation and, indeed, breeding space for ideas.

Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until it is made a spectacular reality through inspiration, hard work, and persistence.

On the surface, my novel The Vorbing is about vampires terrorising the village of Nocturne every night. The German Blitz on London in World War II. I was the real inspiration. I was fascinated by the idea of normality by day and then this evil, destructive power coming by night, and then the cycle repeating. I wanted to explore the kind of siege mentality that would create in a fantasy setting.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

All fantasy tales bathe in the same myth pool and soak in its archetypes and tropes. It's how each author tosses the stock ingredients of the salad that renders their telling unique.

Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.

The reality an individual created for themselves during life, and its rippling impact on others is where the decision on the significance of their legacy lies and not in their longevity.

Capitalism celebrates the freedom of disparity, Communism propagandises the equality of misery.