Thomas Harris Quotes

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

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• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Time
  • Book
  • Green

• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Working
  • Process

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Think
  • Know
  • Wise

• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Book
  • Skills

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• To me, the Quran is a research book.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Research

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Book
  • Burned

• That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Why
  • Book

• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Just
  • Curse
  • Sit

• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

  

  Piper Laurie
  • People

• There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • You
  • Vibe

• Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Children
  • May

• Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride.

  

  Austin Stowell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others...

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Prayers
  • Religious principles

• Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Wise
  • Half