410 Quotes by Joe Hill

If you Google “How do I write a book?” you’ll get a million hits, but here’s the dirty secret: It’s just math. It’s not even hard math – it’s first-grade addition. Write three pages a day, every day. In a hundred days, you’ll have three hundred pages. Type “The End.” Done.

You’re useful to me. Every day. Every hour. Anyone who knows how to love is useful to someone.

Goddamn bloody arsefoam. Daddy drilling Mommy on the kitchen table.

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.

Sometimes Wayne felt that the world had been sliding apart beneath his feet for years. He was still waiting for it to pull him down, to bury him at last.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you – finish you – as much as you create you.

Jude collected them in almost exactly the same way the Pied Piper had collected rats, and children. He made melodies out of hate and perversion and pain, and they came to him, skipping to the music, hoping he would let them sing along.

She wrote she heard them hammering nails all day long and that it was like living next to a coffin maker after a plague. When.

It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class.