Quote

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

Jonathan Stroud

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Stroud
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 27
Novelist
Writer
Jonathan Anthony Stroud
Thinking
Nothing
Diaries
Writing
Kept
Even
Seemed
Made
Days
Every
Happen
Something
Write
Years
Happens
Think
Young
Diary

More quotes by Jonathan Stroud

Image
Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).
Jonathan Stroud
Image
So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?
Jonathan Stroud
Image
Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke. Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. And it did, too.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully-he held up a hand,interrupting Kitty's cry of protest-no,that's wrong. My projection is incorrect. Good. You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say,'sad,lonely old biddy' instead.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?
Jonathan Stroud
Image
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Jonathan Stroud
Image
That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland
Jonathan Stroud
Image
There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.
Jonathan Stroud