Quotes from Jim C. Hines

Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.

Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig.

I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.

I've said for years — ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero — that it's important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. It's paralyzing. Art, whether it's writing or painting or anything else, requires risk. And risk means you're going to make mistakes. Sometimes you're going to fail.

the more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.

books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it's approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.

Jeff [the werewolf] cocked his head and stared at me like I had just turned into a were-rabbit. Admittedly, this was a tremendous improvement over wanting to tear me limb from limb. "Well, shave my ass and call me a poodle. How the hell did you manage that?

Smudge stood atop the water, burning as hot as I'd ever seen him and floating on a cushion of steam like a tiny, pissed-off hovercraft.

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

Droga do chwa?y zaczyna si? od jednego kroku. Podobnie jak droga na szafot.

?adna noc nie jest tak ciemna ani ?adna sytuacja tak rozpaczliwa, ?eby boska interwencja nie mog?a pogorszy? tego stanu.

Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

Judge not, lest ye be punched in the face for being a self-righteous prick.

Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? "Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat..." That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

Jig had never worried about pursuing his destiny. Generally, destiny pursued him. Then it knocked him down and kicked him a few times for good measure.

The gesture would have been far more gallant if his cuff hadn't been dripping with toad piss.

Answers are easy. What's the question?

Librarians: Kicking Ignorance in the Balls for Over 4000 Years

Odd lair for a dragon", Darnak said, "and I've seen one or two in my times." "Do all dragons own flower gardens?" "This is the first one I've come across.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.