"Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him."

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Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Midnight Tides: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 5)”, p.316, Random House

Steven Erikson

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“Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.”
“Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.
“I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.”
“What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.”
“You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.”
“My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.”
“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”

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