Robert Galbraith Quotes
In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.
In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted
Ridiculous, " he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.
You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike
...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.
Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.
Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.
She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness, " she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nill
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.
Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.
He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?