Eric Van Lustbader Quotes & Sayings

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal. — Eric Van Lustbader

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man. — Eric Van Lustbader

Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer. — Eric Van Lustbader

tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma. — Eric Van Lustbader

A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience. — Eric Van Lustbader

Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov — Eric Van Lustbader

The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish. — Eric Van Lustbader

Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us. — Eric Van Lustbader

In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin. — Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is. — Eric Van Lustbader

We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever. The movies, then TV told us that, even - especially - the commercials. — Eric Van Lustbader

To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats. — Eric Van Lustbader

Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us.
We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try. — Eric Van Lustbader

memorable entertainment package takes old-school Hollywood theory and modern electronic know-how." Borz — Eric Van Lustbader

without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth. — Eric Van Lustbader

haragei - the art of balance and power emanating from the lower belly. Haragei was the basis of all Japanese martial arts, from sumo to karate to the almost extinct harakei. The — Eric Van Lustbader

Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made. — Eric Van Lustbader

Boris come himself?" Vanov laughed. "Surely you're joking. Preparations for his wedding. — Eric Van Lustbader

Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you, — Eric Van Lustbader

Survival is not enough. Sardine — Eric Van Lustbader

Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet. — Eric Van Lustbader

after just having finished a breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, toast, and coffee. Her room was huge, more like a — Eric Van Lustbader

Take the hand you're dealt and then finesse it, — Eric Van Lustbader

eerie patterns and lurid colors. Every few seconds — Eric Van Lustbader

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style. — Eric Van Lustbader

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom. — Eric Van Lustbader

To survive is not enough. - Bujun saying — Eric Van Lustbader

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them. — Eric Van Lustbader