“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Gods 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
“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 man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. — Glen Cook 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
“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.” — Glen Cook Gulls Copy Share Image
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. — Glen Cook Conviction Copy Share Image
“In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. — 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
“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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still… — Glen Cook Lonely Copy Share Image
“Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable… — Glen Cook Empire Copy Share Image
“The fugitive blew through a doorway. I was only two steps behind, but when I got there the door was closed and… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be… — Glen Cook Humour Copy Share Image
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
