Mo Brooks Quotes

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it and keep getting it better, and that's where we are.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

I love being in the gym.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

We should not be less than what we are.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

What you write chooses you.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

This heart still believes that love and mercy still exist.

My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

Everything is all right, When you’re here, When you’re right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don’t leave me, Don’t leave me empty handed.

We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.

Faith, Princess, " the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.

No one says: I broke rules, I broke rules, I broke rules - I broke all the rules. That one. And that one. And that one too. Yes, I did.