D.C. Bourone > D.C.'s Quotes

“So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted as they were, and only the common people burned.”
― Mike S. Elton, A Pallid Waste

“Your man won't be reasoned with, brother, but he isn't unreasonable.”
― Mike S. Elton, A Pallid Waste

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”
― Marsilio Ficino, The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Heinlein's Rules for Writers

Rule One: You Must Write
Rule Two: Finish What Your Start
Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order
Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market
Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can pay a mercenary to fight, you can't pay him to die.”
― J.D. Rhoades, Gallows Pole

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“....there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.”
― John Sandford, The Devil's Code

“Experience: Mistakes you have survived.”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin