Hugh Howey Quotes

• Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Long, Way

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• "What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

  Hugh Howey

  Fate, Our Actions, Action

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

  Hugh Howey

  Tangled, Made, Knots

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

  Hugh Howey

  Thinking, Special, Generations

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• There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

  Hugh Howey

  Mind, Stones, Littles

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

  Hugh Howey

  Beautiful, Wish, World

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• Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

  Hugh Howey

  Darkness, Shadow, His Smile

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

  Hugh Howey

  Home, Coming Home, Clean

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• My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

  Hugh Howey

  Wall, Skins, Life Is

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

  Hugh Howey

  Sometimes, Closure, Found

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.549, Random House

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• We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

  Hugh Howey

  People, Needs, World

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

  Hugh Howey

  Imagination, Fans, Pennies

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, and Success". Interview with Erik Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

  Hugh Howey

  Media, People, Use

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• That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

  Hugh Howey

  Liars, Men, Honest

  Hugh Howey (2014). “The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust”, p.995, Random House

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• It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

  Hugh Howey

  Goal, Horizon, Distraction

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• A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

  Hugh Howey

  Moisture, Taste, Poison

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Epidemics, Discovery

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• One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

  Hugh Howey

  Fans, Wool, Fiction

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

  Hugh Howey

  Hero, Winning, Bullshit

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• When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Forgiving, Fellow Man

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.258, Random House

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• Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

  Hugh Howey

  Book, Bored, Twelve

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

  Hugh Howey

  Teaching, Empathy, Miracle

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• The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.

  Hugh Howey

  Stars, Ocean, Kissing

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• He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

  Hugh Howey

  Past, Better Off

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.123, Random House

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