Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
Joe Abercrombie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joe Abercrombie
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 31
Film Editor
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Joseph Edward Abercrombie
Men
Pursuing
Time
Gotten
Anywhere
Friendship
Called
Woman
Long
Never
More quotes by Joe Abercrombie
One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.
Joe Abercrombie
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
Joe Abercrombie
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
Joe Abercrombie
History is littered with dead good men
Joe Abercrombie
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
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
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
Joe Abercrombie
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
Joe Abercrombie
Hard words are for fools and cowards.
Joe Abercrombie
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
Joe Abercrombie
It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
Joe Abercrombie
You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.
Joe Abercrombie
The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
Joe Abercrombie
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
Joe Abercrombie
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
Joe Abercrombie
The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
Joe Abercrombie
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
Joe Abercrombie
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
What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
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
