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
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couple men doors
Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.
idiot shocked
It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.
firsts unicorn said
Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.
magic dresden-files
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
way sometimes burden
Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another
book tired writing
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.
white kind boyish
Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.
eye goes-on shade
You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?
chivalry reflexes involuntary
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
weapons
Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.
writing littles becoming
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
sugar please
Pretty please. With sugar.
mean finding-yourself phrases
It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?
waiting might wells
Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.