Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson
Steven Eriksonis the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1959
CountryCanada
humility soul pay
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558
desire justified virtue
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
pain stranger said
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.
cobwebs moments finest
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
soldier half dozen
It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
compassion hatred soil
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
years stones layers
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
memories littles weight
All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.
narrative share born
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
compassion justice promise
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.
heart views hatred
Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?
ideas littles ongoing
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
memories prey tigers
The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.
one-day frozen faces
A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder