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Jim C. Hines QUOTES

1 " I like big books and I cannot lie.
You other readers can’t deny
That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind
Like a hardbound brick of win.
Story bling.
Wanna swipe that thing
Cause you see that boy is speeding
Right through the book he’s reading.
I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading.
Wanna curl up with that for ages,
All thousand pages.
Reviewers tried to warn me.
But with that plot you hooked
Me like Bradley.
Ooh, crack that fat spine.
You know I wanna make you mine.
This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella. "

― Jim C. Hines

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

― Jim C. Hines , Revisionary (Magic Ex Libris, #4)

3 " The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing. "

― Jim C. Hines , Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris, #2)

4 " I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories. "

― Jim C. Hines , Unbound (Magic Ex Libris, #3)

5 " As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened. "

― Jim C. Hines , Unbound (Magic Ex Libris, #3)

6 " Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening. "

― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)

7 " 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...) "

― Jim C. Hines , The Prosekiller Chronicles: Rise of the Spider Goddess -- An Annotated Novel

8 " 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. "

― Jim C. Hines

9 " Some people would say it's a bad idea to bring a fire-spider into a public library. Those people would probably be right, but it was better than leaving him alone in the house for nine hours straight. The one time I tried, Smudge had expressed his displeasure by burning through the screen that covered his tank, burrowing into my laundry basket, and setting two weeks' worth of clothes ablaze. "

― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)

10 " ...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. "

― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)

11 " Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."

[Blog post of July 26, 2011] "

― Jim C. Hines

12 " Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[Blog post, March 12, 2012] "

― Jim C. Hines

13 " 1. Bullying is not okay. Period.

2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up. "

― Jim C. Hines

14 " Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench. "

― Jim C. Hines , The Prosekiller Chronicles: Rise of the Spider Goddess -- An Annotated Novel

15 " But 'I worked hard on this' doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me. It’s not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It’s people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this stuff."

[Us vs. Them vs. Grow the Hell Up (Blog post, September 1, 2013)] "

― Jim C. Hines

16 " Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. "

― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)

17 " The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives. "

― Jim C. Hines , Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris, #2)

18 " If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly "

― Jim C. Hines

19 " This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly. "

― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)

20 " Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn’t it awesome? "

― Jim C. Hines , Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris, #2)