Gavin J. Grant > Quotes

“Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there’s nothing for it but to fail faster and better.”
― Gavin J. Grant, Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

“What we are storing under the white marble fountain are just the ideas of skeletons, which we think you’ll agree is much more sanitary.”
― Gavin J. Grant, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36

“We must match him nicety for nicety, I thought. He might yet turn on us like an ill-tempered dog, but there was no use provoking him.”
― Gavin J. Grant, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36