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
I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.
[F]ear is a great ally.
Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.
A man must know his limitations.
One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.
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.
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
All beauty is sad. For it fades.
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.
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.