Tad Williams Quote

Strip off the branches and make the logs smooth, the quail said in the voice of a mischievous girl-child. Didn’t your mother and father teach you anything? Paul stared. It was not the strangest thing he had encountered, but it was still a bit surprising. Who are you? She made a little chirping sound of amusement. A quail! What do I look like? He nodded his head, conceding the point. And you know how to build a raft? Better than you do, it seems. It’s a good thing Calypso herself brought you here, because you didn’t even ask permission from the dryads before you chopped down their trees, and they’ll all have to find new homes now.

Tad Williams

Strip off the branches and make the logs smooth, the quail said in the voice of a mischievous girl-child. Didn’t your mother and father teach you anything? Paul stared. It was not the strangest thing he had encountered, but it was still a bit surprising. Who are you? She made a little chirping sound of amusement. A quail! What do I look like? He nodded his head, conceding the point. And you know how to build a raft? Better than you do, it seems. It’s a good thing Calypso herself brought you here, because you didn’t even ask permission from the dryads before you chopped down their trees, and they’ll all have to find new homes now.

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About Tad Williams

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, Shadowmarch series, and The Bobby Dollar series, as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Most recently, Williams published three novels in his series The Last King of Osten Ard, with the final novel The Navigator's Children set to be published in 2024. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams's works have been sold.
Williams's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis issue #50 to #57. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1 (DC).
Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm. The in-progress third book is under the current title The Heirs of Ordinary Farm and does not have a release date yet.