Quotes by Scott Lynch

About Scott Lynch:

Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author, best known for his Gentleman Bastard series of novels. He resides in Western Wisconsin in the city of New Richmond. According to his website, he had a variety of jobs including dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and under the Bantam imprint in the United States. The next two novels in the series Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves were published in 2007 and 2013 respectively.
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Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

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Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to...

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Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Capa Barsavi...

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In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

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There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

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For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.

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Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

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What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.” “Well, not very easily, I’ll grant you that, my boy.” Chains guided Locke in the pl...

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Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

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Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

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[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we need to be clever. He was training us for a situation t...

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To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

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You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.

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If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

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I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but ...

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Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it’s always been ... I’ve said be...

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My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

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I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at ...

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If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken." [on , July 17, 2012]

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Author Bio

  • NameScott Lynch
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 2, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Lies Of Locke Lamora; Red Seas Under Red Skies; The Republic Of Thieves