Jim Butcher Quotes
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
Quotes to Explore
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
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If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
