I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. Sergei Lukyanenko More Quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko More Quotes From Sergei Lukyanenko A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about. Sergei Lukyanenko challengesbookinteresting Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. Sergei Lukyanenko fairy-talestatisticslying But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever. Sergei Lukyanenko differencesislandstwo This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you. Sergei Lukyanenko differencesdarkbelieve Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it. Sergei Lukyanenko love-ischildrensex All we can do is try not to fall. Sergei Lukyanenko can-dotryingfall You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship. Sergei Lukyanenko boysorderpeople I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle. Sergei Lukyanenko friendlybookthinking It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras. Sergei Lukyanenko fightingbeautifuladventure Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained. Sergei Lukyanenko great-powershouldlove-is Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones. Sergei Lukyanenko lonelinessdarkpeople Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning Sergei Lukyanenko coffeebrainmorning Life consists of nothing but exceptions. Sergei Lukyanenko exceptionlife When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny. Sergei Lukyanenko destinylovepeople We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant. Sergei Lukyanenko chancetwolying Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel. Sergei Lukyanenko wellsillaction Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself. Sergei Lukyanenko fightingevilletting-go Great knowledge brings great sorrow. Sergei Lukyanenko great-knowledgesorrow Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie. Sergei Lukyanenko right-timeshouldlying How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are. Sergei Lukyanenko truth-islostlying
