Quotes from Karl Edward Wagner

We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness, With darkness to pattern man's fate. The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue - For the blackness of Evil knows various shades, Full many as Evil has names. Vengeance and Madness, inseparable twins, Born together and worshipped as one; Nor can the Gods tell one from his brother. In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness And darkness weaves with many shades.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one's cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there's fire in his heart.

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

Writers don't have friends. Only deadlines. And cheating publishers. And meddling editors. And carping reviewers. And checks that never come when they're supposed to come, and are always short when they do come.