Dale Amidei > Quotes

“Without readers, an author's voice is only imagination.”
― Dale Amidei

“McAllen nodded to Schuster and headed for the stairwell again. Yes, I could be wrong, and big armored battle monkeys could fly out of my ass before lunch too.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“The top of a hill had the best view.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“Colby cradled the phone and sat back in his chair. It was a hell of a way to salvage the initiative, and now with the machine of bureaucracy working against him, she was probably right in thinking that it was the only way. He would wait for the word to descend; then, he would do whatever he needed to.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“He was here, right now, moving always forward.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“You’re judging now, sir. We judge every time we decide.” Anthony regretted the words almost as he formed them, but for just a second they helped vent a pressure wave, the surge of emotion that he felt building up inside him.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“People in that setting spent a lot of time talking and very little doing. They seemed so often to be divorced from real-world considerations.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“The days of autocratic rule are for the history books, not for building the future.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“I thought what I did was hard. You have a tougher job, Doc. Men are relatively easy to kill, way too easy if you ask me, but changing their hearts—that’s where the heavy lifting comes in.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman

“What happened, happened; then as much mattered in how it was handled as in what had taken place.”
― Dale Amidei, The Anvil of the Craftsman