Margaret Weis
Hope is the denial of reality.Collection: Hope
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.
The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.'
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.Collection: Heart
In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.Collection: World
Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)Collection: Hero
You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.Collection: Blow
Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.Collection: Men
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magicCollection: Soul
Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.Collection: Mistake
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!Collection: Children
My dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?.Collection: Confused
A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)Collection: Believe
You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.Collection: Father
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin MajereCollection: Teaching
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!Collection: Horse
A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.Collection: Men
His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.Collection: Dark
The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.Collection: Heart
If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.Collection: Let Me
Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!Collection: Winter
The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.Collection: Past
Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.Collection: Dream
over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got itCollection: Mother
its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab saidCollection: Stars
ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved. no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!Collection: Stars
I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin MajereCollection: Wall
and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.Collection: Bows
you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robesCollection: Thinking
He could hear himself screaming and he knew it was his death cry. Still he fought on, as he had fought all his life. I...will...control... The words came from his mouth, stained with his blood... I will control... Reaching out, his hands closed over the Staff on Magius. I will!Collection: Blood
I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of herCollection: Sleep
get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!Collection: Waiting
Great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob.Collection: Doubt
Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.Collection: Lying