John Connolly quotes

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal). (John Connolly)

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.

John Connolly

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

John Connolly

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

John Connolly

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

John Connolly

Each man dreams his own heaven.

John Connolly

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.

John Connolly

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

John Connolly

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

John Connolly

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

John Connolly

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published. (John Connolly)

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

John Connolly

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

John Connolly

And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.

John Connolly

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

John Connolly

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

John Connolly

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.

John Connolly

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

John Connolly

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

John Connolly

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.

John Connolly

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. (John Connolly)

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.

John Connolly

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.

John Connolly