William Gwynne

“As with all the stories, there's always smoke before the fire kindles.”
― Giles Kristian, God of Vengeance

“I’ll fight you if you wish. But know this: I am old for a reason.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Dread

“Wild rode the wind though the West country.
Banners were blowing, black was the raven
they bore as blazon. Blaring of trumpets,
neighing of horses, gnashing of armour,
in the hoar hollows of the hills echoed .
Mordred was marching; messengers speeding
northward and eastward the news bearing
through the land of Logres. Lords and chieftains
to his side he summoned swift to hasten
their tryst keeping, true to Mordred,
faithful in falsehood, foes of Arthur,
lovers of treason and freebooters
of Erin and Alban, and East-Sassoin,
of Almain and Angel and the isles of mist.”
― Christopher Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur

“You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth