110+ Jim Butcher Quotes On Book, Writing And Order

Jim Butcher is an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He has also written the Codex Alera series, the Cinder Spires series, and a steampunk series called The Aeronaut's Windlass. Butcher's books have been published in more than a dozen languages and have been best-sellers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jim Butcher on leadership, book, love.

Top 10 Jim Butcher Quotes

1. The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
2. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
3. Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
4. I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
5. HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment
6. I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.
7. I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.
8. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
9. I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.
10. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Jim Butcher Short Quotes

• What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
• Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
• We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
• You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
• In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
• Sleep is God. Go worship.
• Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
• Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
• Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
• I don't believe in faeries!

Jim Butcher Quotes About Book

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. — Jim Butcher

Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal. — Jim Butcher

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. — Jim Butcher

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with. — Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quotes About Love

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart. — Jim Butcher

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. — Jim Butcher

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. — Jim Butcher

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love. — Jim Butcher

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love. — Jim Butcher

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story. — Jim Butcher

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. — Jim Butcher

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure. — Jim Butcher

Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne." "Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?" Bob said. "Uh. I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result. — Jim Butcher

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you — Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quotes About Order

Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly. — Jim Butcher

Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy? — Jim Butcher

in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all. — Jim Butcher

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order. — Jim Butcher

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden — Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quotes About Kind

Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. — Jim Butcher

My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way. — Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget. — Jim Butcher

Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck. — Jim Butcher

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. — Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. — Jim Butcher

I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York. — Jim Butcher

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. — Jim Butcher

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing. — Jim Butcher

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs. — Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Famous Quotes And Sayings

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference. — Jim Butcher

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day. — Jim Butcher

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. — Jim Butcher

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. — Jim Butcher

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. — Jim Butcher

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. — Jim Butcher

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry. — Jim Butcher

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. — Jim Butcher

Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?” she asked. — Jim Butcher

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. — Jim Butcher

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. — Jim Butcher

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places. — Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. — Jim Butcher

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher

And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos — Jim Butcher

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back? — Jim Butcher

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. — Jim Butcher

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost. — Jim Butcher

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. — Jim Butcher

The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean. — Jim Butcher

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? — Jim Butcher

Vanity, thy name is vampire. — Jim Butcher

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. — Jim Butcher

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. — Jim Butcher

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night. — Jim Butcher

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory. — Jim Butcher

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while. — Jim Butcher

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us. — Jim Butcher

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera. — Jim Butcher

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do. — Jim Butcher

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. — Jim Butcher

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. — Jim Butcher

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice. — Jim Butcher

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. — Jim Butcher

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life. — Jim Butcher

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. — Jim Butcher

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. — Jim Butcher

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable. — Jim Butcher

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. — Jim Butcher

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. — Jim Butcher

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another. — Jim Butcher

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. — Jim Butcher

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. — Jim Butcher

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. — Jim Butcher

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful. — Jim Butcher

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. — Jim Butcher

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing. — Jim Butcher

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone. — Jim Butcher

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building. — Jim Butcher

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher

Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes. — Jim Butcher

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different. — Jim Butcher

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence. — Jim Butcher

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? — Jim Butcher

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in. — Jim Butcher

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. — Jim Butcher

Magic. It can get a guy killed. — Jim Butcher

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another — Jim Butcher

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear. — Jim Butcher

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it. — Jim Butcher

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher

Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide. — Jim Butcher

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. — Jim Butcher

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass. — Jim Butcher

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy. — Jim Butcher

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die. — Jim Butcher

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. — Jim Butcher

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden) — Jim Butcher

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden — Jim Butcher

It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how. — Jim Butcher

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils. — Jim Butcher

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. — Jim Butcher

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. — Jim Butcher

Life Lessons by Jim Butcher

1. Jim Butcher's work emphasizes the importance of perseverance and resilience, as his characters often face difficult odds and have to rely on their own strength and ingenuity to overcome them.
2. His stories also demonstrate the power of friendship and loyalty, as his characters often form strong bonds with each other and rely on each other for support and guidance.
3. Finally, Jim Butcher's work emphasizes the importance of taking risks and embracing change, as his characters often have to make difficult decisions and take risks in order to reach their goals.