Paul -Danse Macabre -Dabrowski's favorite quotes

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
— Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

39 people liked it

"In the end, following the Dark Road is no less honorable than following the Light, as long as it is done with a clear purpose."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: evil, inspirational

24 people liked it

"To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels."
— Clive Barker (Mister B. Gone)

26 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

958 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life

878 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-

318 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing

341 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life

1,622 people liked it

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life

228 people liked it

"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: chaos, discovery

131 people liked it

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing

137 people liked it

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
— Ernest Hemingway

48 people liked it

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

152 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

417 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

715 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

1,967 people liked it

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

39 people liked it

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

tags: bond, death, james, philosophy, poetry

197 people liked it

"Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.'"
— Ian Fleming

tags: bond, goldfinger, james, spy

26 people liked it

"Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles"
— Ian Fleming

14 people liked it

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

126 people liked it

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

53 people liked it

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: depressing

79 people liked it

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

444 people liked it

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

135 people liked it

"When the going gets weird the weird turn professional."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72)

tags: life

179 people liked it

"It never got weird enough for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

97 people liked it

"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
— Michael Crichton

tags: death, fear, laughing

114 people liked it

"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
— Michael Crichton

tags: author, books, rewritten, written

15 people liked it

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