Charlaine Harris Quotes

I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

I wish I could read people's minds.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

It's useless to lecture a human.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another