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“Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of sci...”
“I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live...”
“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry in Ireland has always been mysteri...”
“She knew him as much as the knowing of her own hearts secret: she was destined for the forest.”
“Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jn Hreggvisson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block and get a beautiful, chubby woman in here tonight, right now-o...”
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book--everything I like--trying to evoke some ...”
“I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it...”
“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in seventh and eighth grade. Also, [writing Gavriel's backstory] definitely came from t...”
“Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.”
“It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. ...After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is true the...”
“Witches never existed, except in peoples minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? Were all witches...”
“Part of me felt like I was throwing my life away, for a guy I barely knew. But I wasnt just doing it for him. Since my parents died, Id had absolutely no control over my life. If I really thought a...”
“Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block and get a beautiful, chubby woman in here tonight, right now...”
“She knew him as much as the knowing of her own heart’s secret: she was destined for the forest.”
“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witch...”
