Jennifer Fallon Quotes & Sayings

Don't tie yourself in knots trying to predict the future. — Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want. — Jennifer Fallon

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies. — Jennifer Fallon

I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like. — Jennifer Fallon

It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja. — Jennifer Fallon

Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun Cinzci's meat locker trying to decide which. Fortunately, when I tired of solitude, I had guilt to keep me company. Guilt is an even more interesting acquaintance than solitude, let me tell you. Solitude is a harsh but essentially benign attendant. Guilt, on the other hand, is a living, breathing creature, cruel and remorseless. It eats you from the inside out; devours what little hope you have left. It feeds on you, growing stronger with every accursed replayed memory, every useless recrimination." ~ Cayal, The Immortal Prince — Jennifer Fallon

Damin, if you don't want people getting killed, you really should rethink this whole worshipping the God of War philosophy, you know. It's been my observation that people quite often come to harm when you throw them all on a field together, arm them with sharp implements, and tell them to hit each other until there's nobody left standing. — Jennifer Fallon

Unless you can start some worldwide crime wave, I haven't the strength to defy him. — Jennifer Fallon

Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better. — Jennifer Fallon

we don't have a god of bloody stupid ideas — Jennifer Fallon

I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting! — Jennifer Fallon

It was almost as if he enjoyed the fact that the more agitated his opponent was, the more serene he became. Belagren's thoughts about Antonov in The Lion of Senet — Jennifer Fallon

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth - Persian Proverb — Jennifer Fallon

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most ... you could play with worlds more. — Jennifer Fallon

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable. — Jennifer Fallon