Stephen R. Donaldson

The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“he felt as tired as if he had spent the whole night shouting at himself. While”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Joy is in the ears that hear.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced. From the…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Their flat, unreadable faces showed no signs of youth or age, as if their relationship with time was somehow ambivalent; and”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Be true, unbeliever.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“For a moment after his voice faltered and fell, the sanctuary was silent, and the voice throbbed like weeping, as if in…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“for faith and courage are the greatest gift that we can give to our descendants. And the Land holds mysteries of which…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Pacing back and forth now on the spur of his conflicting needs, Covenant growled, "Baradakas said just about the same thing. By…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood .”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with…

— Stephen R. Donaldson