“I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded M...” — Peter V. Brett Quote

“I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.”

“I think George R. R. Martin made fantasy grow up. He brought a level of reality into the storytelling where you realize the good guys don't always win and anyone can die, because that's how life works. Bringing that level of reality into the story I think forced the genre to mature in a lot of ways that it hadn't prior.”

“For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.”

“Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.”

“A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.”