Saladin Ahmed Quotes

#1. My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get from fantasy novels - and to make enough money to help feed my kids while doing so.

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#2. I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

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#3. When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.

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#4. Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.

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#5. I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives.

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#6. One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.

Saladin Ahmed