74 quotes found
Author · British · 1965
British author
“By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.”
“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”
“Werewolves are not a subject for academe, she said, but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species dea...”
“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like mo...”
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.”
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.”
“It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.”
“There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.”
“You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out... It was still good when you ra...”
“The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.”
“Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...”
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are...”
“I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if fe...”
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?”
“We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.”
“If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, youd be miserable poor.”
“If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the...”
“Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.”
