Ed Harris Quotes

I'm insatiably curious.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

The process of giving is without limits.

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

I think everybody has a secret life.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

A thing named is a thing tamed.

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

Love not often, but forever.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.