Tim Lebbon Quotes

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

Your life is a blank, and you’re barely a shade across it.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they’re how He talks to you.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

Voyaging great distances — through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains — is all about finding ourselves.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Real fear is like intense pain. It’s there to warn you something’s truly wrong.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That’s where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.