Sam Hooker > Quotes

“Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy.”
― Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country

“Better to have the threat of death than no reason to live.”
― Sam Hooker, The Winter Riddle

“Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper.”
― Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country

“Vasily’s work was consistently abysmal, so it was reported to his father—a very affluent shareholder in the Three Bells—that his son’s work was nothing if not consistent.”
― Sam Hooker, Peril in the Old Country