Color-of-magic Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He radiated a calm focus--like he knew who he was and where he was going. He was a steady mooring in a sea of…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.”

— Tucker Elliot

“He was young, gorgeous, a Ruthledge, and just enough ruthlessness to put him on the right side of edgy.”

— Sylvia Day

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.”

— Peter McArthur

“He wasn't here to satisfy my idle curiosities. And it held its own fascinations: a man who talked like an innocent and fucked like…

— Alexis Hall

“His face was a study in concentration and empathy, as if every word I said was of supreme importance. It was that expression, that…

— Amy Harmon

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and given him…

— Anthony Trollope

“Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.”

— Sam Byers