Quotes by Glen Cook

About Glen Cook:

Glen Charles Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for the Black Company fantasy series.
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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 irreleva...

Glen Cook

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Glen Cook

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

Glen Cook

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Glen Cook

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

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Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

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If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the ...

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I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep goi...

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

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Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

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It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic Croaker approach. I began to back away. That is how...

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- Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.

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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

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No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human being...

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Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way l...

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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...

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I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameGlen Cook
  • DescriptionAmerican fiction writer
  • BornJuly 9, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist