Peter David Quotes

• There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

  Peter David

  Fiction, Stories, Happy Endings

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• I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'

  Peter David

  Temptation, Needs, Tongue

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• ...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

  Peter David

  Use, Scar, Mortals

  Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

  Peter David

  Dying, Moments, Born

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• Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

  Peter David

  Magic, Delusion, Grandeur

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• If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

  Peter David

  Cute Funny, Events, Towels

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• Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

  Peter David

  Opposites, Matter, Antimatter

  Peter David (2000). “A Rock and a Hard Place”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

  Peter David

  Book, Names, Buying

  Peter David (2016). “Knight Life”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.

  Peter David

  Sex, Pain, Real

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• As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

  Peter David

  Writing, Thinking, Jokes

  "Peter David Interview". Jamie Coville blog, jamiecoville.com. January 2000.

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• To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

  Peter David

  Brave, Crew, Passengers

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• If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

  Peter David

  Book, Mean, Quality

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

  Peter David

  Fashion, Smart, Writing

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• In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

  Peter David

  Ideas, Numbers, Superhero

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower.

  Peter David

  Kings, Dark, Games

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

  Peter David

  Honor, Defense, Suits

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• Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?

  Peter David

  Humorous, People, Profound

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