More often than not bad luck meant bad plans. Joe Abercrombie More Quotes by Joe Abercrombie More Quotes From Joe Abercrombie I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character. Joe Abercrombie character book thinking The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass. Joe Abercrombie moments wise waiting The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes. Joe Abercrombie wise men watches Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back. Joe Abercrombie change-for-the-better opportunity men Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her. Joe Abercrombie luck deserve Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave. Joe Abercrombie rallying-cry men mean Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts. Joe Abercrombie fighting men believe Hard words are for fools and cowards. Joe Abercrombie hard-words fool coward But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over. Joe Abercrombie hate men firsts Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. Joe Abercrombie hallmark savages belief As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it. Joe Abercrombie writing advice mean Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse Joe Abercrombie pity pain steel Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that? Joe Abercrombie book way thinking Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Joe Abercrombie our-lives strange moments There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment. Joe Abercrombie men hands blood Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency. Joe Abercrombie air fear men Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. Joe Abercrombie tasks If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? Joe Abercrombie want men people Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder? Joe Abercrombie touching stories men If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best. Joe Abercrombie taught villain people
