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
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?
reading people noir
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
mean people lows
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
people taught villain
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
lying irrelevance people
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
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.
hero fool boast
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
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.
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.