David Eddings Quotes

• Only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

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• God save us from religion.

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

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• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

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• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

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• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

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• I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t.

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• I’ve fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

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• If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

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• Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor’s degree. Normally a Bachelor’s is sort of like being stamped ‘Prime US Beef.’ They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

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• The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

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• This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn’t even stand to look at it any more.

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• When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, ‘Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.’ That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

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• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

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David Eddings (14)

Birth:	7th July, 1931
Death:	2nd June, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

David Eddings was born in Spokane, Washington. He was an American novelist. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli and The Dreamers. He graduated with a BA from Reed College in 1954. He began work on his first published novel High Hunt, the story of four young men hunting deer.

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