David Gemmell
David Gemmell
David Andrew Gemmellwas a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut, Legend. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore themes of honour, loyalty and redemption. There was always a strong heroic theme but nearly always the heroes were flawed in some way. With over one million copies sold, his work continues to sell...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 August 1948
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
All beauty is sad. For it fades.
A problem shared is a problem doubled.
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.
No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.
Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.