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Jim C. Hines Quotes

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

Jim C. Hines

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Me World Story Short Way Write

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

Ann Coulter

You Know More Pretty Answer Going

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

John T. Flynn

Victory Labor Group Active Him Up

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

St. Vincent

Guitar Kind Always Playing Started

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

Love History People Enough You Look

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

Robin Trower

More Songs Than Arrangements

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

RuPaul

Yourself Remember You Seriously Turn

My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.

Mary Kay Andrews

Beach Library Sand House Television

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Mo Rocca

School High School You Know High

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Time Sleep Reading Bed Most Hotels

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Lorrie Moore

Experience Step Story Think Want

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Jason Robert Brown

Light Feel Loss Year I Feel Goes

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Janis Joplin

Happiness Time Yourself Push You