Quotes from Christopher Paolini

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren't isolated, and I've always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals.

Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do