Quotes by Steven Brust

About Steven Brust:

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013), with co-author Skyler White.
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People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.

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Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between them is the hero listens. As soon as you can talk, he...

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Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

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There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit ...

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You're stubborn, Vlad." "Is that a compliment?

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I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall ...

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Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

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Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

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I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

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A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless." "And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your ennui for an hour has proved its usefulness." "You have a good me...

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Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

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Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

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There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

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I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

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Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

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It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

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The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide ...

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Author Bio

  • NameSteven Brust
  • DescriptionAmerican fantasy and science fiction author
  • BornNovember 23, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer