Christopher Quotes

To this day I still watch tons of horror.

My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

I was a very scared child.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

I had been going out to Orient for several years.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

I've never even done a residency.

I feel that I'm solid at description.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

Love is the light that can shine so bright.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

Serengeti Trek Vacation Bible School 05, where kids are wild about God!.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.