Josh Malerman Quotes

'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

When I first met Aaliyah - it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret - I was in love with her.

I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

My first love was Heath Ledger.

I was in love with Paul Butterfield.

I've always had girls liking me.

I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.

I was madly in love with Michael Jackson.

The only crush I have is on Chris Colfer. I’m madly in love with him… I just, like, I doodle in my prop notebooks, ‘I heart Chris Colfer’ over and over and over again.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.