Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Anthony Stroudis a British writer of fantasy fiction, mainly for children and young adults...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 October 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Jonathan Stroud quotes about
toes watches victim
Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.
gathering drunkenness
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?
mirrors samarkand magician
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
illusion
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.
looks hey fields
Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.
waffles young young-ones
That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.
opportunity wife skirts
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.
style might wells
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
coffee boys hot
The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.
wall skins vigor
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.
wrestling careers mind
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.
fighting reality ordinary-things
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
ghost-stories nasty protagonists
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
ideal involves london nice notebook sitting
When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.