James A. Moore Quotes

The Arcturians had been the first alien race mankind had encountered, and those initial meetings had marked a turning point for the human race.

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

What was it that Drask Silver Hand had said to him? Life is pain. Oh, how he lived just then.

So is a murder rose until you decide to hold the blossom in your hand and sniff it. Perfectly inviting and even charming until the poisons burn your skull open." "By the gods, man, where do you hear about these things?

The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

Little known fact: sometimes wizards do things just because it amuses them.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

of them gave those thoughts a second consideration

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

Krohan but from that distance he sounded almost

I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.