Quote by K.J. Parker

“He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.”

— Arthur Slade

“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?”

— Kate Quinn

“You are capable of explaining everything you feel. Why don't you go to the Emperor and talk to him?”

— Paulo Coelho

“I had to learn, as Balzac did, that one must write volumes before signing ones own name.”

— Henry Miller

“He is a king whom emperors have served.”

— Robert W. Chambers

“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter. The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.”

— Yu Hua

“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.”

— Terry Pratchett

“... we took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”

— Ernest Hemingway