M.M. Scott Quotes

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.