Quotes About Zelazny

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles ... for the last great battle is always the next one.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least.

And then the night wind, cool through arches of the years, came hounding after me.

I taste the darkness, I hear the song the moon sings.

You've no objection to a bird of ill omen, following you, have you, Corwin?

My sense of Shadow was dulled in this place which seemed in some way the essence of Shadow.

Battle is not a game, and I had no desire to make myself available to any presumptuous ass who thought otherwise.

You will have my old cell," I said. "No, the one next to it.

Unless the giddy Heaven fall, And Earth some new Convulsion tear; And, us to joyn, the World should all Be cramp'd into a Planisphere.

I am Merlin the pent, son of Corwin the last, and my dream of light has been turned against me.

With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I've read his 'Princes in Amber' books so often, I know them almost verbatim, so much so that I am now trying to forget them so I can return to them with renewed pleasure.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.