Quotes by Stephen R. Donaldson

About Stephen R. Donaldson:

Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its "imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace." He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University. He currently resides in New Mexico.
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And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Stephen R. Donaldson

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found

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Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Stephen R. Donaldson

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Stephen R. Donaldson

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep...

Stephen R. Donaldson

Where do you get dreams like this?

Stephen R. Donaldson

I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moments any serious drunk can tell you about. A piece of...

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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

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He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too...

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The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Maste...

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The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautif...

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I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Stephen R. Donaldson

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Stephen R. Donaldson

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

Stephen R. Donaldson

For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.

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Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

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Author Bio

  • NameStephen R. Donaldson
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornMay 13, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist