{"author":"Robert Fanney","author_id":"Robert+Fanney","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["inspiration","perspiration","writing"],"id":15525,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air.","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["dreams","fantasy","healing","luthiel","magic","wyrd"],"id":49592,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["courage","despair","fear"],"id":64267,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still...","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["blackness","elf","elves","fantasy","luthiel","magic","moon","music","shadow","song","summer","volcano","winter"],"id":100685,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"To be me is to be different...","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["different","left-out","lonely","luthiel","self"],"id":105750,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her. ","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["death","heroism","luthiel","vanye"],"id":112086,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. ","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["dreams","fantasy","lies","lost","luthiel","magic","othalas","words"],"id":122296,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["comfort","hope","illusion","luthiel","magic","witch","zalos"],"id":125337,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;.","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["complacency","courage","enablement","evil","fantasy","fight","heroism","suffering","threat"],"id":125765,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"},{"text":"Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real. ","author":"Robert Fanney","tags":["creativity","fantasy","ideas","magic","work"],"id":141827,"author_id":"Robert+Fanney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}