Quotes from John Connolly

I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

"You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself."