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
Jim Butcher quotes about
hands touching-you knowing
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
dinosaurs call-me fairs
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
harry-dresden dresden
Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
religious long mouths
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
confused sweat numbers
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.
names vanity vampire
Vanity, thy name is vampire.
giving political choices
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.
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.