Gregory Close > Gregory's Quotes

“I'm not making it complicated, I'm just looking at it less simply.”
― Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight

“It's hard to win a war with a front at your back.”
― Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!”
― Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight

“A fantasy story is a vacation to another world for the price of a sandwich.”
― A.E. Marling

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it." - Brohan Madhrarigal”
― Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight

“Never leap into battle, when you may come quietly to victory at a walk.”
― Gregory S. Close, In Siege of Daylight

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss