Top 150 Michael Scott Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I’m probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.”

— Michael Scott

102. “I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.”

— Michael Scott

103. “The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.”

— Michael Scott

104. “We only part to meet again.”

— Michael Scott

105. “There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.”

— Michael Scott

106. “He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.”

— Michael Scott

107. “Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.”

— Michael Scott

108. “I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I’m a huge advocate of plotting.”

— Michael Scott

109. “The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind’s greatest strength.”

— Michael Scott

110. “The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls – he hadn’t hit anything for at least a minute.”

— Michael Scott

111. “I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.”

— Michael Scott

112. “Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!”

— Michael Scott

113. “I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.”

— Michael Scott

114. “In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they’ll be sure to let you know.”

— Michael Scott

115. “The credibility of any item in finance is inversely proportionate to the amount of publicity it receives.”

— Michael Scott

116. “Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.”

— Michael Scott

117. “But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.”

— Michael Scott

118. “Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.”

— Michael Scott

119. “And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty. Myths and legends walk unseen amongst them, ignored, unrecognized. It was not always so.”

— Michael Scott

120. “There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what’s best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I’ve spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.”

— Michael Scott

121. “It’s always been Apple’s goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that’s still true from thirty years ago.”

— Michael Scott

122. “Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.”

— Michael Scott

123. “Most writers, I’m afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.”

— Michael Scott

124. “Sisters are a trial,” he said. “And it doesn’t matter if they’re Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.”

— Michael Scott

125. “The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.”

— Michael Scott

126. “I lost Scathach, but I never gave up on her. I have spent ten thousand years in this Shadowrealm waiting for that single moment to tell her, to show her, that I never stopped loving her.”

— Michael Scott

127. “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present’?”

— Michael Scott

128. “You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.”

— Michael Scott

129. “Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. – Nicolas Flamel.”

— Michael Scott

130. “So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it’s what keeps us afraid of the dark.” -Virginia Dare.”

— Michael Scott

131. “I have a few regrets. There was a girl I should have married, a war in which I should never have fought, a loaf of bread I should have shared, a lie to which I should never have listened. And there is a story I should have told.”

— Michael Scott

132. “It was some time ago – in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time – a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name.” Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. “What happened to him?” Sophie asked. “He died.” There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.”

— Michael Scott

133. “Seasick,” Scatty mumbled. “That’s exactly what it feels like. Only worse.”

— Michael Scott

134. “Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.”

— Michael Scott

135. “Alle oosterse vechtkunsten hebben een gemeenschappelijke oorsprong. En die oorsprong ben ik,′ zei Scatty bescheiden.”

— Michael Scott

136. “Niccolo Machiaveli stood apart from the rest of the crowd, arms lightly folded across his chest, careful not to wrinkle his Saile Row- tailored black silk tuxedo. Stone gray eyes swept over the other bidders, analyzing and assessing them.”

— Michael Scott

137. “Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.”

— Michael Scott

138. “He’d met Dee briefly and didn’t like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.”

— Michael Scott

139. “Nothing – Elder, Next Generation, immortal or human – was completely indestructible. Not even Areop-Enap. Perenelle herself had once brought an ancient temple down on the spider’s head and it had shrugged off the attack – yet could it survive billions of poisonous flies?”

— Michael Scott

140. “She knew then that whatever he was – whoever he was – he had not lost his humanity.”

— Michael Scott

141. “Josh started to laugh at his sister and then immediately reconsidered. “I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.”

— Michael Scott

142. “The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it.”

— Michael Scott

143. “The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.”

— Michael Scott

144. “Areop-Enap was ontwaakt... ‘Je kunt nu maar beter uit de weg gaan,’ zei ze met een verrassend welluidende stem.”

— Michael Scott

145. “I need you to be courageous, Sophie. The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.”

— Michael Scott

146. “If you were extremely unlucky, the forest spiders would get to you first and lay their eggs in you.” “Why is that considered extremely unlucky?” “You’d still be alive when the eggs hatched.” “That is probably the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard,” Shakespeare muttered. He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pencil. “I’ve got to make a note of that.”

— Michael Scott

147. “But what you must remember is that knowledge itself is never dangerous,” Tsagaglalal insisted. “It is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous.”

— Michael Scott

148. “Good or bad is a matter of perspective.”

— Michael Scott

149. “Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.”

— Michael Scott

150. “You are silver and gold, the moon and the sun. You carry within you the genes of the original twins who fought on Danu Talis ten millennia ago. Sophie, you and your brother are the descendants of gods.”

— Michael Scott