Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombieis a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy and other related works of fantasy. In 2014 he published Half a King, the first book in his new Shattered Sea series, which won the 2015 Locus Award for best Young Adult book...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
hate men firsts
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
hate men long
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
hate love-is better-person
Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
bit films tv whether
I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.
luck bad-luck plans
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
book thinking way
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
men long long-time
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
men stay-calm mercy
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
men people want
If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
hero fool boast
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
men blood hands
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.
mean writing advice
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
tasks
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
choices looks path
One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.