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Charlie Huston

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Charlie Huston, born in 1968, is a talented American author whose works span various literary genres, including crime novels, historical novels, and fantasy novels. His writing is known for its unique narrative style and profound character development.

Sleepless

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Catchpenny

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Already Dead: A Novel

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Every Last Drop: A Novel

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Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel

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“And yes, it is also possible that the shared swirling pool is infinite and forever replenishing. Always supplying us with the potential to love without limits and to heal all hurts through mutual understanding; it's possible that what I feel is what you feel is what they feel and we are all the same. That, too is possible. I'm okay with that possibility”

Emotion Collective Consciousness Pluribus

Book:Catchpenny

Source: Catchpenny

“It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he’s not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned. Stretched on the rack and burned with hot irons, Dexter Predo will be in no danger of revealing the truth. Living so far beyond its borders.”

Book:Every Last Drop

Source: Every Last Drop

“Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.”

Emotions Police Fake Imitation Criminal Cops Interrogation Badge

Book:Sleepless

Source: Sleepless

“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.”

Culture Civilization Mediocrity Alternative

Book:Sleepless

Source: Sleepless

“Would getting rid of mojo be a return to a natural state we had before someone, some wise woman or whoever, figured out how to use it in the first place? Or would it be a perversion of order and stability in the world.”

Book:Catchpenny

Source: Catchpenny

“Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.”

Sleep Sleeplessness

Book:Sleepless

Source: Sleepless

“I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.”

Want Hard Might Certain Produce Hard Work Skills Pages Genre Conventions

Author:Charlie Huston

“When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.”

Feels Self Moments Facts Might Certain Choices Can Do Accepting Economy Humility Amount Indulgence Self Indulgence

Author:Charlie Huston

“Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.”

Writing Years Mean Art Said Two Book Self Sometimes Done Jobs Teach Creative Sacrifice Tables Crafts Schedules Looking Forward Indulgence Groceries Self Indulgence Get The Job Done

Author:Charlie Huston

“One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.”

People Character Artist Reader Habit Involved Average Great Things Comic Devoted Casual

Author:Charlie Huston

“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Moments Character Shows Hurt Violence Involved Cost Glory Impact Meant To Be Entertaining Protagonists Cathartic

Author:Charlie Huston

“There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.”

Thinking Knows Littles Research Solve Shock Market Research

Author:Charlie Huston

“The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.”

Reading Reader Intimate Unpredictable

Author:Charlie Huston

“I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.”

Book Wish Nerves Publishing

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“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

Men Looks Eye Romance Asks Mines One Day Just Friends

Author:Charlie Huston

“Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.”

Attention Havens Pay Attention Witch

Book:Every Last Drop: A Novel

Source: Every Last Drop: A Novel

“If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.”

Ifs Believe I Can Real Reason Black Dark Saws Core Tricks Just One Shade Chill Madmen Quiver Flapping

Book:My Dead Body: A Novel

Source: My Dead Body: A Novel

“Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.”

People Thinking Doe Care Universe

Author:Charlie Huston

“Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.”

Thinking Wells Behaviour Diplomacy Manipulate

Author:Charlie Huston

“He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.”

People Thinking Doe Cutting Cutting Off

Author:Charlie Huston

“For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.”

Body Causes Loss Sleep Ability Doubt Terror Judgement Phantoms

Book:Sleepless

Source: Sleepless

“Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.”

Needs Children Littles Running Kids House Parent Dangerous Gun Little Kid Firearms

Book:Already Dead: A Novel

Source: Already Dead: A Novel

“Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.”

Pain Mother Asks Deals Ignored

Author:Charlie Huston

“Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.”

Thinking Believe Kind Persons Enough Night Asks About Yourself

Book:Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel

Source: Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel

“Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured.”

Book:Sleepless

Source: Sleepless

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Author
Quotes: 25

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