Jim Butcher Quotes

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

When the premiere of the show came out, we threw a big party, and, like, five minutes into the party, me and Corey walked out of the party and said... 'No one's ever gonna watch this.'

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Remember when you had your face lifted... and the guy brought it back.

To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.