Top 272 Quotes & Sayings by Charlaine Harris
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.
Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.
No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
I like the cerebral process.
People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
I like sparkly things.
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.
Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!
I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't." "The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.
The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.
Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.
I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.
It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.
As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.
I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.
Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.
You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
It’s called Two and a Half Men,” Dermot was telling his guest. “I understand,” Bellenos said. “Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t.” “I think so,” Dermot said. “Don’t you think the son is useless?” “The half? Yes. At home, we’d eat him,” Bellenos said.
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.
You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.
She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.
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