SERGEI LUKYANENKO QUOTES
Russian author (1968- )
If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Day Watch
There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
The Last Watch
Great knowledge brings great sorrow.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Twilight Watch
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and joy.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
"A Russian Brown Bear is the Best Patronus! Our Pop Quiz Interview with Sergei Lukyanenko", Tor, December 4, 2014
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
I am fat, lazy and kind.
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"A Russian Brown Bear is the Best Patronus! Our Pop Quiz Interview with Sergei Lukyanenko", Tor, December 4, 2014
Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
New Watch
That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Twilight Watch
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
interview, The Telegraph, October 5, 2012
It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
interview, The Telegraph, October 5, 2012
A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
interview, The Telegraph, October 5, 2012
For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Night Watch
If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.
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Day Watch
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
interview, Strange Horizons, November 28, 2011