The Trickster Quotes

#1. Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?

Mark Lawrence

#2. There is a figure that links the personal and the collective shadow; it is the Trickster. Jung describes the Trickster as 'the summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals'.

Christopher Perry

#3. Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said ... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's shell.

Tamora Pierce

#4. the writing of fiction is akin to the work of a stage magician, a feat of sustained deception in which by imagery and language the trickster leads the audience to believe in the existence or possibility of a series of nonexistent or impossible things.

Michael Chabon

#5. The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

Christopher Paolini

#6. The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)

Louis L'Amour

#8. I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Anne Rice

#9. [The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow.

C. G. Jung

#10. The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Tom Robbins

#11. All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

Christopher Moore

#12. ... but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

Gregory Maguire

#13. Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

Gerald Vizenor

#14. This coyote is a wily dog born
from ancient trickster bones,
Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore

Toby Barlow

#15. And the Morrigan, I noted, had been right about thrice-cursed trickster gods. They were torrential fucksluices spraying their happy juices on the innocent and the damned alike.

Kevin Hearne

#16. When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster ... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

Joy Harjo

#17. He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn't believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her.

Michael Buckley

#18. I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringing order to it. Building a complex web. I am the spider. This is my venomous bite. I will make them see their folly.

A.L. Davroe

#19. When the person with a chokehold on your soul says, "Jump," you pack your parachute and hope for a soft landing.

Jamie Wyman

#20. Trickster, love will be the end of you.

Michael Buckley

#21. Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.

Molly Ringle

#22. Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

Vince Aletti

#23. The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable.

James Howe

#24. Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.

Alex Morritt

#25. Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

Stephen Jay Gould

#26. Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Jonathan Maberry

#27. Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.

Mordecai Richler

#28. Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill.

Luca Caioli

#29. Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Gerald Vizenor

#30. Trickster," he said, sniffing the boy. "Love will be the end of you.

Michael Buckley

#31. In the spirit of Trickster, here's to turning representation against itself in the fight for survivance, for f"a new consciousness of coexistence," for a new Turtle Island.

Pauline Turner Strong

#32. Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.

Patricia Briggs

#33. I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

DJ Spooky

#34. The god inside the man glanced at Aly. "This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear."
Aly beamed at him. "So it is. And the game begins.

Tamora Pierce

#35. There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world ...

Steve Moffat

#36. Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

Neil MacGregor

#37. There is nothing encouraging about fortune and thus one must remain indifferent by it for it is a trickster desperate to be chased, chased till the very end, only to show us how miserable her path is and how inappropriate it was to choose her over effort.

Chirag Tulsiani