17 quotes found
Author · English
English author
“We have truth in order not to die of art.”
“a story is ready when it falls from your face”
“Since childhood Id been suspected of imagination”
“Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination”
“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”
“What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?”
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dogs repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing bad...”
“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”
“Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse”
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the readers senses”
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”
“Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if Im lying down and horizontally if Im running”
“I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it”
“He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards”
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing ba...”
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”
