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Jim Butcher is an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series.

✵ 26. October 1971
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Jim Butcher Quotes

“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.”

Jim Butcher Codex Alera

Codex Alera, First Lord's Fury (2009)

“Harry Dresden: There’s power in the night. There’s terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when the darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear. Get a good ways out from civilization-say, miles and miles away on a lightless lake-and the darkness is there, waiting. Twilight means more than just time to call the children in from playing outside. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood. Night is when unseen beings with no regard for what our people have built and no place in what we have deemed the natural order look in at our world from outside, and think dark and alien thoughts. And sometimes, just sometimes, they do things.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 40

“Waldo Butters: Screw up my life?
[He stared a me for a second and then said, deadpan]
Waldo Butters: I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.
[He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said]
Waldo Butters: Do your worst.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 5

“When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.”

Jim Butcher

A Conversation With Jim Butcher, The SF Site, McCune, Alisa, 2004, 2008-02-04 http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm,

“Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files, White Night (2007)

“The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.”

Jim Butcher book Day Off

Character: "Darth Wannabe"
The Dresden Files short stories, Day Off

“Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005)

“Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Ghost Story (2011), Chapter 14

“Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 47

“I'd never seen anyone go truly, old-school berserkergang, but that scream…It was like hearing an echo rolling down through the centuries from an ancient world, a more savage world, now lost to the mists of time. And suddenly I had no trouble at all believing her age.”

Jim Butcher book Heorot

The Dresden Files short stories, Heorot

“I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.”

Jim Butcher

“Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26