Quotes from zelazny roger ii

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -- you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

I'm a lost soul. We do wail.

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

Death is the only god that comes when you call.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.