I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. – David Eddings
I taught in a small teachers college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didnt. – David Eddings
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then were in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. – David Eddings
I wrote a novel for my degree, and Im very happy I didnt submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. – David Eddings
How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? Science says that an acre of soil produces one horsepower every day. But you could pour gasoline all over the ground forever and never see it sprout maple trees. – William Bryant Logan, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth