Beaulineaus Quotes & Sayings

Operating by trial and error mostly, we've evolved a tacitly agreed upon list of the elements that make for a good fantasy. The first decision the aspiring fantasist must make is theological. King Arthur and Charlemagne were Christians. Siegfried and Sigurd the Volsung were pagans. My personal view is that pagans write better stories. When a writer is having fun, it shows, and pagans have more fun than Christians. Let's scrape Horace's Dulche et utile off the plate before we even start the banquet. We're writing for fun, not to provide moral instruction. I had much more fun with the Belgariad/Malloreon than you did, because I know where all the jokes are.
All right, then, for item number one, I chose paganism. (Note that Papa Tolkien, a devout Anglo-Catholic, took the same route.) — David Eddings

Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name, — Melina Marchetta

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. — Kate Chopin

But it doesn't make sense for you to love me... — Stephenie Meyer

At last someone takes me seriously. — Jeremy Paxman

The larger society was willing to let the frustrations born of racism's violence become internalized and consume its victims. America's horror was only expressed when the aggression turned outward, when the ghetto and its controls could no longer contain its destructiveness. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Control your emotions! Discipline your mind! — J.K. Rowling

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do. — T. Mills

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. — Robert Breault

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. — Socrates