Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini
Christopher James Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance. He currently lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 November 1983
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
age gains overcoming
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
matter ends
I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.
fate fighting wish
Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.
powerful night want
As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.
strong pain animal
I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.
war fighting winning
A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.
writing thinking self
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
men crowns fame
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
revenge eragon treats
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
pain life-is selling
Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
creative would-be be-creative
Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.
writing character people
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.
moderation wiser policy
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
art thinking magic
Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.