Brian Hogan > Brian's Quotes

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Part 1

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”
― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

“Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty this hatred. How did it find us, did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us that we now send our children into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return but knowing some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name...is it your name?”
― Lucas Scott

“If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.”
― Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

“Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgments.”
― Zephram Cochrane

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger