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Tad Williams Quotes

born 1957 United States

Tad Williams (born 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

United States
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Otherland

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53 quotes

Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

“Why can nothing be simple?”
Geloë shifted on her stool. The wise woman’s voice was surprisingly sympathetic. “Because nothing is simple, Prince Josua.”

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”
The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

“This fellow,” he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, “will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.”

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I’m sorry if that inconveniences you.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

Fear goes where it is invited.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Not being stupid is important.

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.

To Green Angel Tower (1993)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tad Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.