Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author, best known for his Gentleman Bastard series of novels. He resides in Western Wisconsin in the city of New Richmond. According to his website, he had a variety of jobs including dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 April 1978
names ambush
My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
giving want way
We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!
pain dull reassurance
If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.
fashion men soul
The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.
stupid past helping
You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.
cat hands giving
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!
sharks throwing lettuce
Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.
winning way teeth
Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.
brain credit sawdust
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
government theft consent
What is government but theft by consent?
abuse body permission
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
names poison killing
I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.
admire persons qualifications
Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
littles reckless used
I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.