Garry Kilworth > Quotes

“Man is not satisfied with just being man. He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance--he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'-- O-kolkol”
― Garry Kilworth, The Foxes of Firstdark

“Importance of dreams is not in using - importance is in having. You think dreams must mean something real, that fantasy bad for the soul. All wrong, all wrong. Fantasy just as important as reality. Reality is feeding body - finding food for keep alive. Fantasy feeds spirit. Soul need food same as body, and dreams, philosophies, stories, creations, all food for spirit, see?”
― Garry Douglas Kilworth, Hunter's Moon

“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the smoke and coke dust of a mythical railway track that should stretch ahead. Yes, the characters were there, good and solid. Indeed, the story's engine was strong and had shunted yet forward and forward, with only one or two sharp halts. But six weeks ago he met the bumpers. R. was now stuck in a deserted station, his progress blocked. ("Out Back")”
― Garry Kilworth

“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.”
― Garry Kilworth, The Wizard of Woodworld

“Man is not satisfied with being just man. He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself.”
― Garry Douglas Kilworth, Hunter's Moon

“One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.”
― Garry Kilworth, The Wizard of Woodworld

“That’s our history, and you can’t take it away from us, just because you were here before us. It doesn’t work like that.”
― Garry Kilworth, Frost Dancers: A Story of Hares

“-Tower, men have rejected me.
-Perhaps they have their reasons, Bubba?
-But I am of their kind.
-Only in thought, word and deed.
-You mean, tower, that though I think like a man and act like a man, they still do not like me?
-Men do not like themselves very much, Bubba”
― Garry Douglas Kilworth, Frost Dancers: A Story of Hares

“Where does childhood end? It ends with the death of fantasy, when fear of the dark is replaced by a fear of the light. When you see and know the object of your fear then you enter that adult world you yearn for so much as a child.”
― Garry Kilworth

“Another, Falshed knew, called itself a mountain weasel. Yet another sported a very long tail. There was not, as he had always imagined, just one sort of weasel in the world, but a great many varieties, who fetched up in places like this, an international crossroads. The same could be said of badgers. In his travels through Eggyok the chief had met stink badgers, ferret badgers, hog badgers and honey badgers, all slightly different. When it came to martens there were over a dozen, from stone martens to fisher martens to yellow-throated martens. There were even thirteen species of otter! Yet, so far as he knew, there was only one type of stoat. What did that tell him? That stoats were special? Or that stoats were inferior”
― Garry Kilworth, Heastward Ho!

“I’d rather die anyway than live the rest of my life in a cage. Yes, I’m a little scared, but what can the worst be? A knock on the head, and you wake up as a flower.”
― Garry Kilworth, Frost Dancers: A Story of Hares