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  • I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

    "The Seeress of Kell".
  • I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

    Kings   Son   Soldier  
  • I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

  • The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

    Lying   Player   Games  
  • Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

    Wise   Knows  
  • Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  • Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

    Earth   Sake   Someday  
    David Eddings (2010). “Sorceress Of Darshiva: (Malloreon 4)”, p.147, Random House
  • Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books
  • Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

    Men   Pay   Young  
  • What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

    Uncles   Stupid   Eagles  
    David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey
  • You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

    Crazy   Rain   Wind  
  • As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

    "The Belgariad". Book by David Eddings, 1993.
  • Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

    College   Hands   Names  
  • It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2010). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, p.98, HarperCollins UK
  • ...I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit

    Kings   Father   Heart  
  • Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

    Arms   Majesty   Beloved  
  • I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

    David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey
  • Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

    David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

    David Eddings (2010). “Demon Lord Of Karanda: (Malloreon 3)”, p.21, Random House
  • Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

  • Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2007). “The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON”, p.6, Del Rey
  • Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

    Powerful   Dark   Night  
    David Eddings (2010). “Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad”, p.136, Random House
  • I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

    Years   Laughing   World  
  • I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

    Vices   Lied   Said  
  • When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

    Eye   Reality   Normal  
    David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey
  • It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

    Personality   Doe   Ugly  
    David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.243, Random House
  • I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  • As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

    Long   Opinion   Motive  
  • This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

    Real   Umpires   Bored  
  • Consistency is the defense of a small mind

    David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey
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