Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie

‘The Blade Itself’ was my first book. Probably I should’ve tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Book

Firsts

Stories

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Long

Long Time

Men

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it…a cheese-trap.

Bread

Cheese

Humble

All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain’t no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I’ve learned … just to stick in the place I’m at. Just to be the man I am.

Men

Rivers

Sea

Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit.

Mind

Possibility

States

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don’t get bogged down in it.

Advice

Mean

Writing

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Belief

Hallmark

Savages

But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there’s always a trace of that love left over.

Firsts

Hate

Men

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

Believe

Glory

Shadow

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Men

Stories

Touching

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Air

Bad Luck

Baths

Belief

Believe

Better Person

Blood

Boast

Book

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Breakfast

Change For The Better

Character

Cheese

Children

Choices

Congratulations

Courage

Coward

Deserve

Disappointment

Dream

Easy

Eye

Fear

Fighting

Firsts

Fool

Forget

Geek

Given

Glory

Good Man

Hallmark

Hands

Hard Words

Hate

Hero

Hot

Humble

Irrelevance

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Joy

Laughing

Lawyer

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Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie

‘The Blade Itself’ was my first book. Probably I should’ve tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it…a cheese-trap.

Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don’t get bogged down in it.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

But you can’t truly hate a man without loving him first, and there’s always a trace of that love left over.

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

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