Jim Butcher
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.Collection: Inspirational
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.Collection: Real
Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.Collection: Mean
There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.Collection: World
Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.Collection: Weapons
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajarCollection: Life
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today.Collection: Mean
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.Collection: Stars
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.Collection: Hero
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.Collection: Land
Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.Collection: Winter
The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.Collection: Littles
Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with anotherCollection: Way
As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinaryCollection: People
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.Collection: Running
We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.Collection: Way
Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.Collection: Running
There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.Collection: Hurt
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.Collection: Point Break
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.Collection: People
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.Collection: Thinking
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.Collection: Hero
Sleep is God. Go worship.Collection: Sleep
So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.Collection: Blow
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?Collection: Eye
I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.Collection: Family And Friends
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.Collection: Wall
Thank God for wisecracks.Collection: Thank God
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.Collection: Wise
And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.Collection: Thee
Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.Collection: Thinking
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.Collection: Skulls
There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.Collection: Loyalty
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.Collection: Family
There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.Collection: Spoons
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.Collection: Things In Life
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.Collection: Hero
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.Collection: Confused
Me and polite have never been on close terms.Collection: Term
Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.Collection: Team
Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.Collection: Dog
Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.Collection: Pain
I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.Collection: Wise
Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.Collection: Fall