Chris Wooding Quotes

I'd love to see the Iron Jackal's face when he finds out I'm already dead," he said with half a grin. "Now that's irony." "No it ain't, Cap'n. It's just some shit that happened. ~ Chris Wooding

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with. ~ Chris Wooding

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact ... ~ Chris Wooding

This was London, and you either held on, or fell by the walkside like that fellow had. ~ Chris Wooding

Don't confuse contentment with happiness... ~ Chris Wooding

She was spared the slow, steady droplets of blood that began to spatter the beds, drip, drip, drip, painting the white sheets in shocked flowers of red ~ Chris Wooding

Then a person has only one tale?"
No, some have two or three separate ones or more," Fleet said. "Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all. ~ Chris Wooding

The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues. ~ Chris Wooding

Not bad for a bunch of reprobates with a galaxy of personality disorders. ~ Chris Wooding

Was it possible that he liked the world the way it was? ~ Chris Wooding

Mad she may be, or possessed; or maybe only scared out of her wits. ~ Chris Wooding

They would erect great temples, and cities built of bone and sinew, and their foulness would spread like a cancer until finally, a hundred years from now, Mother Earth would be theirs. ~ Chris Wooding

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead. ~ Chris Wooding

I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit. ~ Chris Wooding

You alright?' Frey asked him. Crake gave him an accusing glare. 'I thought I'd given up all dignity long ago when I joined this crew,' he said. 'But this? This is a new low, Frey.'
'It's character-building,' said Frey. ~ Chris Wooding

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice. ~ Chris Wooding

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason. ~ Chris Wooding

'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic. ~ Chris Wooding

Malvery snapped his fingers at Pinn. 'Come here. I need that sling.'
'It´s my sling!' Pinn whined.
'You´re wearing a sling ´cause you shot yourself like an idiot. She just saved Silo´s life. See the difference?´
'No,´Pinn said stubbornly, but he let Malvery undo the sling anyway. ~ Chris Wooding

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. ~ Chris Wooding

Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way. ~ Chris Wooding

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough. ~ Chris Wooding

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever. ~ Chris Wooding

We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders. ~ Chris Wooding

Trudging off into a swamp in the middle of the night had seemed like a god idea at the time but, like most of Frey's ideas, the reality fell short of the concept. ~ Chris Wooding

Suddenly it was if she was merely a brain, being transported inside the skull of some hideous fleshy machine, a piece of living cargo in someone else's body. ~ Chris Wooding

At least on the Ketty Jay he was surrounded by people who asked no questions, people untrained in the aristocratic arts of vicious wit and backstabbing. He rather liked that about them, actually. ~ Chris Wooding

Pinn just won a medal for intelligence,' Frey said, shaking his head as he clapped. 'I don't want to live on this planet any more. ~ Chris Wooding

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself. ~ Chris Wooding

Our heroes have arrived, then," the stranger said, his voice a soft, bubbly murmur.
"Excuse me?" Poison queries.
The odd creature put down his rod in a little wooden cradle that rested next to him and got up from the edge of the jetty. He looked them over with his vast, yellowish eyes.
"Hmm," he said gloomily. "You don't seem a bad bunch." He jostled past them and began to shuffle back towards his house. "At least you're not the typical muscle-bound warrior, beautiful sorceress, and amusing thief sidekick. By the waters, did that become stale fast. ~ Chris Wooding

She was quite maniac when I met her. I scared her, maybe. ~ Chris Wooding

I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing. ~ Chris Wooding

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person's mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice. ~ Chris Wooding

The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach. ~ Chris Wooding

He let the smoke drift around the inside of his mouth, trying to relax, but nothing could so easily dispel the unquiet that he felt. ~ Chris Wooding

Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much."
She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm.
...
Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd.
She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing. ~ Chris Wooding

Nothing's bigger than me!" Frey shouted back. "Me is all I've got. ~ Chris Wooding

Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can. ~ Chris Wooding

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. ~ Chris Wooding

They believe all connections are temporary, so to cling to them makes no sense. When someone is gone, they're gone. Live for now; the present is all there is. You can't know what will happen next, so why worry? Consequences are natural and.inevitable. just do what you feel you must. ~ Chris Wooding

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it. ~ Chris Wooding

It is a grace to be able to hold on to someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking. ~ Chris Fabry

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance. ~ Chris O'Dowd

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time. ~ Chris Hadfield

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't. ~ Chris Pratt

She and I went to school with Shay Mitchell and Hayden Panettiere, Megan Fox was prom queen, Chris Hemsworth was prom king."
I make a clicking noise with my tongue.
"And there was Natalie's worst enemy, a cheerleader who tried to steal Damon away from her in tenth grade; Natalie said she was the slutty version of Nina Dobrev - none of these people really looked like them, not really anyway. Natalie is just ... odd ~ J.A. Redmerski

I have a massive guilt thing about money. ~ Chris Lilley

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. ~ Chris Brogan

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East. ~ Chris Christie

I have what it takes to make Chris World Outreach knock the Pope out of business. I can convince my parents to invest in your company until it's in every nation of the earth ~ S.A. David

Beyond that row was a double row of trees. Sam headed in that direction, Dad on her heels.
"Be careful of snakes."
That stopped her in her tracks. She could deal with a snarling dog. A hissing cat. Even a spitting ferret like her cousin Chris had, but she had the biggest fear if snakes. It didn't matter if it was a grass snake or a supposedly good snake that ate the poisonous snakes. In Sam's opinion, the only good snake was a dead snake. Dead and chopped up into little, itty, bitty pieces.

~From "Samantha Sanderson On the Scene ~ Robin Caroll

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. ~ Chris Cleave

In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. ~ Chris Kyle

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' ~ Tom Hardy

Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there. ~ Chris Murray

Nothing matters except life and the love you make. ~ Chris Martin

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision. ~ Chris O'Dowd

There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good! ~ Chris Chibnall

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ~ Chris Cooper

These days, most Americans who are unashamedly prejudiced know better than to say so, except to a secure, like-minded audience, given that many people live and work in environments where they can be slapped on the wrist, publicly humiliated, or sacked for saying anything that smacks of an "ism." However, just as it takes mental effort to maintain a prejudice despite conflicting information, it takes mental effort to suppress those negative feelings. Social psychologists Chris Crandall and Amy Eshelman, reviewing the huge research literature on prejudice, found that whenever people are emotionally depleted - when they are sleepy, frustrated, angry, anxious, drunk, or stressed - they become more willing to express their real prejudices toward another group. ~ Anonymous

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. ~ Chris Martin

I looked over at Maisey who seemed as if she was trying to remember and forget something all at the same time. ~ Chris Cole

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.' ~ Chris Pratt

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers. ~ Chris Hardwick

Maybe pick it up by mistake with the cleaning?" "It is there." "With the cleaning?" "In the closet." "No, it isn't. I looked." About to speak, Willie tightened her lips and scowled. Karl had walked in. "Good evening, Madam." He went to the sink for a glass of water. "Did you set those traps?" asked Chris. "No rats." "Did you set them?" "I set them, of course, but the attic is clean." "Tell me, how ~ William Peter Blatty

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them ~ Chris Bowen

Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied. ~ Chris Cleave

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country. ~ Chris Christie

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible. ~ Chris Matakas

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies. ~ Chris Prentiss

A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches. ~ Chris Murray

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas. ~ Chris Hemsworth

You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it. ~ Chris Kyle

I believe the best use of ones life is to serve others through a medium you are most passionate. Jiu Jitsu allows me the opportunity to give someone my time in the pursuit of THEIR dreams. It affords me the gift of willingly spending my non-redeemable life in the interest of another. Jiu JItsu has given me the opportunity to positively influence countless lives. ~ Chris Matakas

I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race. ~ Herman Cain

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready. ~ Chris Gardner

The Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells. ~ Chris Crutcher

Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion.
Every act of perception is art.
So everything that perceives is an artist. ~ Chris F. Westbury

We are very much at the mercy of circumstance, but it is how you choose to respond to circumstance that determines the quality of your life. ~ Chris Matakas

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable. ~ Chris Howard