“Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.”

“Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full ofprayers and you get a room full of corpses.”

“Never Give up, never surrender.”

“Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.”

“A faint acrid smell drifted in through the window, from the cannon fire. But through it all the walls of my prison cell never trembled. The walls of the Tower are the thickest in the land and they never, ever tremble”

“I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.”

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”