Farland Quotes

#1. Pay attention to the sound of words.

David Farland

#2. Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction

David Farland

#3. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

David Farland

#4. Millionaires don't use astrology ... the billionaires do.

J. P. Morgan

#5. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant

Leonard Nimoy

#6. If the universe is infinite, as I believe, then it must surely contain an infinite number of possibilities that we have not yet imagined or attempted to harness ...

S.J. Parris

#7. Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

John Darnielle

#8. Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

David Farland

#9. There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

David Farland

#10. A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

Norman Mailer

#11. There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

David Farland

#12. In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis.

Michael Foley

#13. But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.

David Farland

#14. Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

David Farland

#16. Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

David Farland

#17. It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

John Darnielle

#18. We have one hundred percent chance of achieving what God has called us to, even if we are starting from scratch

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Adolf Loos

#20. We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

David Farland

#21. Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

Quinn Cummings

#22. Don't worry, little bunny, we only use our triplet telepathic powers for good.

Elle Lothlorien