Shane Porteous > Quotes

“You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you’ll remember me.”
― Shane Porteous on his writing style.

“If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all”
― Shane Porteous

“I am not arrogant to claim that I can achieve the impossible, but I am not ignorant enough not to try to”
― Shane Porteous

“he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters.”
― shane porteus

“A successful book isn’t always good and a good book isn’t always successful”
― Shane Porteous

“Fantasy is easy, all you have to do is this. Here’s an interesting culture, here’s another interesting culture. What would happen if you put these two cultures in the same world? From there all you have to answer for the reader is, why are these two cultures fighting? And more importantly, why should the reader care? If you can do that you will have a great story on your hands.”
― Shane Porteous