You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it. 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 characterbookthinking The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass. Joe Abercrombie momentswisewaiting The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes. Joe Abercrombie wisemenwatches 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-betteropportunitymen Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her. Joe Abercrombie luckdeserve 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-crymenmean 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 fightingmenbelieve Hard words are for fools and cowards. Joe Abercrombie hard-wordsfoolcoward 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 hatemenfirsts Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. Joe Abercrombie hallmarksavagesbelief 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 writingadvicemean 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 pitypainsteel 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 bookwaythinking Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Joe Abercrombie our-livesstrangemoments 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 menhandsblood 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 airfearmen 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 wantmenpeople 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 touchingstoriesmen If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best. Joe Abercrombie taughtvillainpeople
