Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

About Joe Abercrombie:

Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy and other related works of fantasy. In 2014 he published Half a King, the first book in his new Shattered Sea series, which won the 2015 Locus Award for best Young Adult book.
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That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Tim...

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Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

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Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and ...

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Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.' 'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the highe...

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You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

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Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

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I span the entire geek spectrum.

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I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

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I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing ...

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'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

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I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differe...

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As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Joe Abercrombie

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

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You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

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it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

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A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

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Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

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You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.

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Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is

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On the battlefield there are no rules.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoe Abercrombie
  • DescriptionBritish fantasy writer and film editor
  • BornDecember 31, 1974
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter