Quotes from Brent Weeks

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city's most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.