Top 54 Michael A. Stackpole Quotes
#1. Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
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#2. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
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#3. I don't know what I'll be in the future, Anakin, but I know you'll be a great Jedi Knight."
- Jacen Solo
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#4. Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.
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#6. selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.
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#7. Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.
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#8. You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.
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#9. The distinction between protectors and warriors is critical to avoid the seduction of the Dark Side."
-Luke Skywalker
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#12. Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
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#13. If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.
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#15. As Han once told me, "Stealth and subtlety work well, but for making lasting impressions, a blaster does just fine.
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#16. The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
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#17. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.
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#18. Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity" Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf
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#19. A Two-Onebee droid doesn't need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.
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#20. Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?"
- Jacen Solo
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#21. I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker
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#22. Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
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#23. I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
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#24. Being Jedi is what we are. It's not the power we weild or the weapons we carry."
-Luke Skywalker
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#26. If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.
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#27. Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.
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#28. Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
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#29. In games, we know who has won ... You get the reinforcement for having played well.
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#30. Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
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#31. I have nothing against kids - as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.
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#32. The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
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#33. Out of character to be so obvious. You need to be more subtle. Locate a partially blocked artery in his brain, then just pinch it off. Bang, he's down and it's over."
- Mara Jade Skywalker
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#34. People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
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#35. It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
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#38. This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.
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#39. Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
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#40. Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs. -Jaina Solo
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#42. Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
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#44. I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.
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#45. Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.
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#46. If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
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#47. Easy isn't for Jedi. Of course, trying to find your own path is much more difficult. Maybe what you have to do is walk a bit on the other paths and see how you can waeve bits and pieces of them together."
- Anakin Solo
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#48. The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.
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#50. If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero. --A Hero Born, pg 344
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#51. I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
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