Explore Quotes by Brent Weeks

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.

I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.