“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“There are always loose ends in real life.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“... cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Strike had always marvelled at the strange sanctity conferred upon celebrities by the public, even while the newspapers denigrated, hunted or hounded them. No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn't be him. He's famous.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“... it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow...”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody’s undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn’t enough to shake them out of it.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“In the depths of his tiredness, surrounded by these blank, sheep-like visages, he found himself pondering the accidents that had brought all of them into being. Every birth was, viewed properly, mere chance. With a hundred million sperm swimming blindly through the darkness, the odds against a person becoming themselves were staggering.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his lowest ebb and helped him turn his fortunes around; nor, having normal eyesight, could he escape the fact that she was a very good-looking woman.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“…difficile est longum subito deponere amoren, difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias… …it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow…”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“I said that the greatest female writers, with almost no exceptions, have been childless. A fact. And I have said that women generally, by virtue of their desire to mother, are incapable of the necessarily single-minded focus anyone must bring to the creation of literature, true literature. I don’t retract a word. That is a fact.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“I’m totally serious. Look it up on the net. When women turn, they really turn.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
“There were undoubtedly those to whom killing was easy and pleasurable: he had met a few such. Millions had been successfully trained to end others' lives; he, Strike, was one of them. Humans killed opportunistically, for advantage and in defense, discovering in themselves the capacity for bloodshed when no alternative seemed possible; but there were also people who had drawn up short, even under the most intense pressure, unable to press their advantage, to seize the opportunity, to break the final and greatest taboo.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Silkworm
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“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from The Poisonwood Bible
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Siddhartha
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Atlas Shrugged
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, quote from Don Quixote
“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”
― Philip Pullman, quote from The Golden Compass
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