Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris

11-Apr-1940


United States


Journalist

Thomas Harris is an acclaimed American writer, famous for his suspense novels. He is one of the very few privileged writers who have successfully sold off all their books to be adapted as movies. During his studies at Baylor University, he also worked as a reporter for a local newspaper. He has published five books and almost all have an integral feature of thrill and horror. Although all his books have been best-sellers, but the most notable one was ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ which was adapted into a movie, and subsequently won multiple ‘Oscars’. His latest novel ‘Hannibal’ has been the third novel to feature the main characters of ‘Dr. Hannibal Lecter’ and ‘Clarice Starling’. It portrays the life of both the characters after seven years of ‘The Silence of Lambs’. His books, writings, thoughts and work portray his stupendous intellect and he has also been acknowledged as one of the best writers by the famous novelist ‘John Dunning’. We have curated his famous quotes from his books and film adaptations. Go through these quotes and sayings by Thomas Harris which will surely inspire you besides giving you goosebumps.

QUOTES BY Thomas Harris


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

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

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