Matt Bell > Quotes

“The compasses are disappointingly true, pointing north over and over, when all he wants is for one to dissent, to demur, to show him the new direction he cannot find on his own.”
― Matt Bell, How They Were Found

“Are evolution and its abundances the expression of the world’s will, or only the artifacts of its indifference?”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed

“Why aren't these fantasy novels on display somewhere in my house, where there are a thousand-plus other books stacked across a dozen bookshelves? Because bookshelves do more than just hold up our books. They speak to how we see ourselves, and more obviously how we want others to see us. This is a part of my makeup I don't always show.”
― Matt Bell

“What does it mean to still be ashamed of interests that so many other people openly celebrate? What does it mean to still be ashamed of the part of myself that has, in so many ways, bought me my entire career? If I had not been a fantasy reader, a video game player, a D&D dungeon master, I would probably not be a writer or an editor or a professor.”
― Matt Bell, Baldur's Gate II

“He didn't believe in luck but he believed in bananas.”
― Matt Bell, Scrapper

“I believe in the promise of the wilderness,” Nathaniel says, staring into the firelight, as nightly he repeats his self-made creed.”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed

“He doesn't believe in the deity his brother worships, nor the one whose word Jasper Worth preaches, but he does believe in this: that every creature and every growing thing and every unique place might be its own small god.”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed

“there’s no crime in being born into a harmful story, but surely there’s sin in not trying to escape.”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed

“The world they have isn't the world anyone wants, because the world they have is a human world.”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed

“This world is already enough, that it’s enough to be a mere part of it, taking nothing more than the one real moment constantly renewed, the present in which it might be possible to stay rooted simply by ceasing your craving for more.”
― Matt Bell, Appleseed