Quotes by Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny

A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

Book

Fire

Song

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you’re still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client’s really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

Agents

Writing

Years

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Clock

Sorrow

Spring

Do you work for the government, any government?” “I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Government

Mean

Pay

Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands – alternately cool, warm, moist and dry – a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

Dwelling

Sea

Smell

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Mirrors

Shows

Wish

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

Lizards

Purple

Good evening, Lord Corwin,’ said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?’ A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.’ You enjoy this duty?’ He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

Philosophical

Smoking

Writing

Good-bye and hello, as always.

Bye

Good Bye

Hello

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Atman

Followers

Said

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Absence

Advancement

Age

Agents

Agony

Anticipation

Arrogant

Art

Atman

Battle

Bears

Beautiful

Book

Brother

Buddhist

Bye

Car

Character

Civilization

Clever

Clock

Cold

Company

Confused

Crazy

Criticism

Dies

Differences

Difficult

Doors

Dream

Duration

Dwelling

Elephants

Enemy

Fall

Feet

Fire

Followers

Giving

God Love

Goes On

Good Bye

Good Night

Government

Hands

Hatred

Heart

Hello

Hurt

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Quotes by Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Do you work for the government, any government?” “I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

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