The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.” — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. — Glen Cook Character Copy Share Image
“- Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.” — Glen Cook Goblin Copy Share Image
“Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.” — Glen Cook Skulduggery Copy Share Image
“Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the… — Glen Cook Combat Copy Share Image
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. — Glen Cook Aliens Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the… — Glen Cook Children Copy Share Image
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.” — Glen Cook Justice Copy Share Image
“No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Best way out,” Elmo observed laconically, “would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.”… — Glen Cook Goblin Copy Share Image
“I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was,… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so… — Glen Cook Evil Copy Share Image
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them… — Glen Cook Dream Copy Share Image
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Children Copy Share Image
“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band… — Glen Cook Barbarians Copy Share Image
“It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
“A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk.… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your… — Glen Cook Creative process Copy Share Image
“Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description.… — Glen Cook Care Copy Share Image
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma. I’ve never even told Raven about that. That’s why I joined the… — Glen Cook Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Gods Copy Share Image
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
