Steven Brust

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

— Steven Brust

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

— Steven Brust

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

— Steven Brust

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

— Steven Brust

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

— Steven Brust

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

— Steven Brust

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

— Steven Brust

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

— Steven Brust

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

— Steven Brust

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

— Steven Brust

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

— Steven Brust

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

— Steven Brust

“We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.”

— Steven Brust

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

— Steven Brust

“Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you've already done that…

— Steven Brust

It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

— 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

“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

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to…

— 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

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without…

— 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

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…

— Steven Brust

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it…

— Steven Brust

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten.…

— 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

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect…

— Steven Brust

“xxx it is not lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave, it is lack of personality; they desire a woman…

— Steven Brust

“Boss, she's a _Dragon_. They don't _believe_ in assassination. They consider it a _crime_. If you go up to her and--" "Kragar,"…

— Steven Brust

“Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear…

— Steven Brust

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the…

— 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

“I like your coat," she announced, as if her approval of my dress were the supreme prize in a good-taste contest. "Does…

— Steven Brust

“A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is…

— 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

“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will…

— Steven Brust

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

— Steven Brust

“You're stubborn, Vlad." "Is that a compliment?”

— Steven Brust

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

— Steven Brust

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

— Steven Brust