Quotes by : Thomas Harris

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she....

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved....

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited....

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, and there was snow in his hair and on his....

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought,....

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.