Ian R. MacLeod > Quotes

“Little men, stuck in little positions of little authority, are always the worst.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages

“The robot had discovered many times through its dealings with clients that humans were capable of believing things which went against the evidence of their own senses and intellect.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, Sin Eater

“Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there’s story in its pages. But then there’s the story of its writing. And there’s also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, The Summer Isles

“With their cross-cultural marriage and commitment to rational education, Mum and Dad had entered adult life imagining that they were part of what all society would eventually become”
― Ian R. MacLeod, Song of Time

“Anna radiated nothing more than happiness, and the guileless mystery of being what she was, which is something few of us can manage.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages

“Myśli głupie. Myśli tęskne.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, Red Snow

“The past is like that. When it finally taps you on the shoulder, it’s never the thing you thought it to be.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages

“To my mind, real experience and what we think we actually know about reality is all too often vague and contradictory. This being one of the main reasons why we have fiction, which generally makes much better sense.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, Ragged Maps

“isn’t the years that matter, Adam. Time doesn’t run that way. Life’s quick and then it’s slow and then there are grey spaces where it really doesn’t seem to run at all.”
― Ian R. MacLeod, Song of Time