Mark Lawrence

“I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.”

“Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.”

“I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.”

“When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in is, deeper than our blood.”

“After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.”

“Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.”

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.”

“The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry.”

“That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.”

“It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.”

“Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.”

“There's a problem with continually stamping down on the least sensible instincts that drive men to recklessly endanger themselves. Even the most reasonable and level-headed of us have only limited space to store such unwanted emotion. You keep putting the stuff away, shoving it to the back of your mind but like an over-full cupboard there comes a point where you try to cram one more thing into it and all of a sudden something snaps, the catch gives, the door bursts open and everything inside spills out on top of you.”

“I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.”