Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series. Butcher was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1971. He is the youngest of three children, having two older sisters. He lives in Independence, MO, and has one son...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 October 1971
CountryUnited States of America
soldier trying looks
I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.
want heroism action
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
harry-dresden psychotic wannabes
I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.
motivational eye stubborn
We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
thinking intelligent hard
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
men skills age
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.
loyalty real mean
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.
mortgage muse
I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.
animal joy lust
Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.
book ideas trying
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.
want done ashamed
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
thinking firsts fronts
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.
ostriches world sand
We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
next next-time smoke
The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.