David Eddings Quotes

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

God save us from religion.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?