You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.
We are all children, Kheldar.--Cyradis
There things we know for certain.Oh? Name one.The sun's going to come up tomorrow morning.Why?It always has.Does that really mean that it always will?A faint look of consternation crossed her face. I...
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
Operating by trial and error mostly, we've evolved a tacitly agreed upon list of the elements that make for a good fantasy. The first decision the aspiring fantasist must make is theological. King Art...
I note this hound of thine, Sir Knight, he said to Garion to ease them past an embarrassing moment, a bitch, I perceive--Steady, Garion said firmly to the she-wolf. That is a offensive term, she grow...
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
Would you look at this? Silk waved a piece of parchment at the old man. What's the problem? Belgarath took the parchment and read it. That whole business was settled years ago, Silk declared in an irr...
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, the queen said with a little smirk, and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.
Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale, Belgarath was saying.I don't see why, father, Polgara replied.All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom.Old customs persist --even when the...
If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?Of course it is, she replied calmly.How did you reach that conclusion? Beldin demanded.Because there's no su...
The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed som...
Refusing to talk about something wouldn’t make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.
Now what? Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be.Am I disturbing your Majesty? Prala asked.…You always disturb me, my beloved, he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before.You're a fortunate man, Wolf said.She's a great beauty, the man said admiringly.And has a temper to match, Wolf told him.I noticed that,...
Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Art...
Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again .... Now's the time to be alive-- to see it ha...