Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes - Page 2

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• It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.

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  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

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• But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

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  Two, Differences, Islands

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• A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

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  Book, Interesting, Challenges

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

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  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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• I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.

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  Book, Character, Opportunity

  "Watching The Watches: An Interview With Sergei Lukyanenko". Interview with Nicholas Seeley, strangehorizons.com. November 28, 2011.

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• We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

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  Lying, Two, Chance

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.

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  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• I am fat, lazy and kind.

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  Lazy, Kind, Fats

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• At home the very walls lend you strength.

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  Wall, Home

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

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  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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• Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

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  Book, Language, Sometimes

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• All we can do is try not to fall.

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  Fall, Trying, Can Do

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.440, Random House

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• Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

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  Lying, Should, Right Time

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

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  Letting Go, Fighting, Evil

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• I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.

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  Girl, Falling In Love, Believe

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• There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

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  Reason, Anton Gorodetsky

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “Last Watch”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

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  Order, Enemy, Way

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Vasiliev (2009). “The Day Watch: (Night Watch 2)”, p.295, Random House

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• What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

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  Hate, Giving, World

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

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  Guitar, Voice, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

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  Simple, Sheep, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

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  Lying, Years, Common

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

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  Time, Luck, Wish

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

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  Beautiful, Children, Crazy

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

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  Pain, Calm, Mask

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

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  Fighting, Cutting, Dark

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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