Feist Quotes

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

The first love is the difficult love.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.