Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes
Stephen R. Donaldson's entry delivers a raw, gritty look at loss and the pain of broken promises.
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When last comes to last, I have little power: I am merely an urn. I hold the bone-sap of myself, and watch the marrow burn. When last comes to last, I have little strength: I am only a tool. I work its work; and in its hands I am the fool. When last comes to last, I have little life. I am simply a deed: an action done while courage holds: a seed.
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.
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Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.
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Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.
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I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
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I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
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For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.
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"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
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Where do you get dreams like this?
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Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.
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It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
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The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.