David Hambling > Quotes

“There is a story about a traveller chased by a tiger to the edge of an abyss. The man took hold of a vine and started to climb down when he saw an angry dragon at the bottom of the abyss, and when he looked up, the tiger was lashing its tail above. As he hung on, a mouse started to gnaw away at the vine he was clinging to. The man was ready for death when he noticed a wild strawberry growing next to him, so he plucked it. It was the sweetest he had ever tasted.”
― David Hambling, Broken Meats

“The guilty flee where none pursues, or so they say.”
― David Hambling, The Elder Ice

“...magic is madness. That's almost the definition of it. The ordinary mind, the sane mind, revolts at the thought of doing the impossible...”
― David Hambling, Master of Chaos

“I do at least understand a little more how fact and fiction work together. It’s like a steak and kidney pudding: without steak, there’s no substance; without kidney, there’s no savour. You need the proper mixture. Pure fact is too indigestible without the imaginative part that fills in the spaces between. That’s the only way to make a satisfying pudding.”
― David Hambling, Broken Meats