Steven Brust
Steven Brust
Steven Karl Zoltán Brustis an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists, with co-author Skyler White...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
please-me people feelings
Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.
no-excuses manners reflexes
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
together-again together firsts
You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.
thinking brain special
There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.
two effort serious
Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.
powerful eye sorcery
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.
enemy waste weak
What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.
book thinking literature
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
want
It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
thinking trouble enough
Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.
past giving understanding
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
ambition men waiting
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
clever mistake smart
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
people want charming
I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.