Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombieis a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy and other related works of fantasy. In 2014 he published Half a King, the first book in his new Shattered Sea series, which won the 2015 Locus Award for best Young Adult book...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
believe shadow glory
Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.
believe fighting men
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.
luck bad-luck plans
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
book thinking way
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
hero fool boast
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
hate men firsts
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
hate men long
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
mean writing advice
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
tasks
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
choices looks path
One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.
geek spectrum
I span the entire geek spectrum.
laughing moments should
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
strange moments our-lives
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
disappointment misery life-is
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.