David Eddings Quotes

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That…
• When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember…
• Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
• Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each…
• No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had…
• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds…
• The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,…
• If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
• I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching…
• You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that…
• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of…
• I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of…
• This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I…
• Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write…
• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And…
• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly…
• Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you…
• I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
• I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

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