Skip to content

Portrait of Charlie Huston

Charlie Huston

(1968) Screenwriter United States

48 quotes in 195 categories

Charlie Huston is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for Sleepless.

Quick Facts About Charlie Huston

Born: January 1, 1968
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Sleepless
Known for: Joe Pitt Casebooks

About Charlie Huston

Charlie Huston is an American novelist, screenwriter and comic book writer. They have written various novels in different genres, including Caught Stealing (2004) that was adapted into a 2025 film by Darren Aronofsky. They have also written the Joe Pitt Casebooks series that feature a detective who is also a vampire, as well as several standalone novels and comic books.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Charlie Huston · Page 2

For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's…

Ability

Image

“Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings…

Badge

Image

Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind…

About yourself

Image

“Sunt, dupa standartele omenirii, in toate mintile. E adevarat ca am ceva manii, dar nu frizeaza nebunia.”

Image

“."...and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with…

Joe-pitt

Image

“Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing,…

Character

Image

If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave…

Believe

Image

“And a realization for Skinner, she still has his scarf, inside her mountaineering jacket, red wool at her neck. Some meaning there…

Image

“The enforcer takes an envelope from his side jacket pocket and drops it in one of the scummy puddles. I look at…

Image

“Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.”

Image

“I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.”

Danger

Image

“Like I was ever normal. Like I was ever any different from how I am now. A cure won't make me better.…

Image

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my…

Deals

Image

“She makes a stone-face, drops her voice an octave. -No. No. No. My name is Joe Pitt and I don't do nuthin'…

Good thing

Image

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the…

Eye

Image

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured.

Ignored

Image

“She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye. “Now, go Arrghh. “Arrghh. She…

Image

“I'm on page 65 of 368 of Sleepless: "I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a…

Life

Image

“I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might…

Sense of humor

Image

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That…

Behaviour

Image

“What's inside is inside for a reason. What's hidden is hidden for a reason. What's buried is buried for a reason.”

Image

Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd…

Children

Image

“Don’t make me come out there and spray you, blanco. I point at my one eye. “Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim…

Image