Glen Cook Quotes

American fiction writer (born 1944)

Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series.

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Alternative Names: Greg Stevens • Glen Charles Cook

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Good morning. I’m honored but I’m also pressed for time. If you have something to discuss please get to the point. I’m an hour behind schedule and didn’t budget time for socializing.

“Given time we would have become less than indispensable and you would have started looking around for a way to shaft us instead of doing the honorable thing and paying us off and simply terminating our commission.”
“That’s what I love about you, Croaker. Your unflagging faith in humanity.”
“Absolutely. Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent,” I grumped.

The road can blunt the most iron will.

You know you’re getting old when everything aggravates you.

She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.

If I had my druthers I’d be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years.

Half of confidence is the appearance of confidence.

No world lacks its villains so self-confident that they don’t believe they can get the best end of a bargain with the darkness.

It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing."
"I don't understand."
"Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.

There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.

Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.

“She was stronger than the gods who created her?”
“Guys, I didn’t make this stuff up. Don’t ask me to rationalize it. Goblin, you’ve been everywhere. You ever seen a religion that can’t be picked to shreds by any nonbeliever with brains enough to tie his own bootlaces?

Nobody had any ideas. The questions just sort of lay there like dead fish too ripe to be ignored and too big to shove out of the way.

For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.

I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.