Steven Brust

“Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.”

— Steven Brust

“Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours”

— Steven Brust

“I will do you one last favour, in the name and memory of the figment you have replaced. I will clarify a…

— Steven Brust

“We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs…

— Steven Brust

“...As we locked the front door behind us, she said, "How do you keep getting in without my knowing it? Did Jill…

— Steven Brust

“It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right…

— Steven Brust

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone…

— Steven Brust

“Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed…

— Steven Brust

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

— Steven Brust

“Does it really matter what you feel when you do something? Does it somehow make a difference if you're sorry when you…

— Steven Brust

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

— Steven Brust

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees…

— Steven Brust

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and…

— Steven Brust

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

— Steven Brust

“Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a…

— Steven Brust

“But we’re assassins: when we make mistakes, people live”

— Steven Brust

“I turned away, took a deep breath, and sheathed the weapon. I never know what to say after I've intimidated someone; I…

— Steven Brust

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

— Steven Brust

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

— Steven Brust

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

— Steven Brust

“Xxx there is a certain kind of peace that you find in the middle of a city when you are the only…

— Steven Brust

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the…

— Steven Brust

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only…

— Steven Brust

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide…

— Steven Brust

“You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should…

— Steven Brust