“Mum,” said Christopher. “It’s a demon. I don’t think a poker will hurt it.” “It will where I’m going to put it,”… — John Connolly Humor Copy Share Image
“He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did… — John Connolly Blue dress Copy Share Image
“That evening, as he got ready for bed, he heard his mother and father talking in their bedroom, and that was how… — John Connolly Mother and father Copy Share Image
“Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.” — John Connolly First time Copy Share Image
He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted… — John Connolly Book Copy Share Image
“Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn’t care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere,… — John Connolly Prayer Copy Share Image
“If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose,… — John Connolly Evil Copy Share Image
“I had met plain women, even ugly women, whose physical shortcomings had been remedied by the spirit within, their decency and kindness… — John Connolly Change Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love… — John Connolly Existing Copy Share Image
“Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it… — John Connolly Happiness Copy Share Image
“There is a dark resource within all of us, a reservoir of hurt and pain and anger upon which we can draw… — John Connolly Dark Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Anger Copy Share Image
“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on… — John Connolly Book Copy Share Image
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about… — John Connolly Bad Copy Share Image
“He had a vague longing for the student radicalism of the sixties and seventies, mainly because he had been too young to… — John Connolly Anger Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Conservative Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly Always Copy Share Image
“I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.” — John Connolly Memory Copy Share Image
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. — John Connolly Creativity Copy Share Image
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the… — John Connolly Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Before she became ill, David’s mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren’t alive in the way that people… — John Connolly Parenting Copy Share Image
“A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer” — John Connolly Being human Copy Share Image
“Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey.” — John Connolly Death Copy Share Image
“Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that… — John Connolly Men and women Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Disturbance Copy Share Image
