„Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.“
— Tad Williams, buch Stadt der goldenen Schatten
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Tad Williams
Geburtstag: 14. März 1957
Robert Paul „Tad“ Williams ist ein amerikanischer Autor. Er schreibt in den Genres Science-Fiction und Fantasy. Zu seinen erfolgreichsten Werken gehören Die Saga von Osten Ard und Otherland .
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„He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.“
— Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Author’s Warning
„Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
„… Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.“
— Tad Williams, buch Stadt der goldenen Schatten
„When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 724).
„“Now, boy, now…” he said bewilderedly, “what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.”“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 10, “King Hemlock” (p. 139).
„The fear was all he had left, but even that was something—he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite…“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 13, “Between Worlds” (p. 199).
„Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 10, “King Hemlock” (p. 142).
„We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.”“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 260).
„It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 12, “Raven’s Dance” (p. 392).
„Fear goes where it is invited.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 7, “Spreading Fires” (p. 171).
„No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.“
— Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 40, “The Green Tent” (p. 677).
