Robert Asprin quotes:

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  • To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

  • Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.

  • New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

  • Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

  • Everybody needs a career manager.- Lady Macbeth

  • Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

  • The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

  • In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

  • I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans.

  • When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

  • Writing that's not working for a living.

  • We've got an unbeatable team."- Sauron

  • They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero

  • Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.

  • C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

  • Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

  • When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

  • Writing thats not working for a living.

  • It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

  • Just a little off the top!"- A. Boleyn

  • Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it.

  • Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams

  • I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

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