Quotes from James A. Moore

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they remain utterly timeless for me. I cannot recommend them enough.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

It felt oily in his mind and left an aftertaste in his soul.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face.

The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

Hunsucker chewed at a lump of gum like it had done his family wrong.

No matter how hard he ran, how carefully he hid himself or what he might find as a weapon, he knew they would eventually locate him. It was as inevitable as the dark between the stars. And

in his frozen sleep, no one could hear his screams.

So is a murder rose until you decide to hold the blossom in your hand and sniff it. Perfectly inviting and even charming until the poisons burn your skull open." "By the gods, man, where do you hear about these things?

Durhallem, Ydramil, Wrommish, Paedle, Truska-Pren, Wheklam, and Ordna.

The Arcturians had been the first alien race mankind had encountered, and those initial meetings had marked a turning point for the human race.

Krohan but from that distance he sounded almost

Little known fact: sometimes wizards do things just because it amuses them.

of them gave those thoughts a second consideration

What was it that Drask Silver Hand had said to him? Life is pain. Oh, how he lived just then.

Everything about the creature was terrifying. The way it moved, the way it looked – even the way it died.

Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.

How the hell should I know? I'm just a grunt.

He wanted to make a copy to send back to his sister – the one who'd been smart enough to finish college and was working for Weyland-Yutani as a forensic xenobiologist. She made disgustingly good money. Still, he got laid a lot more often. It was all a matter of perspective.