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“Mendham was a cadaverous man with a magnificent beard. He looked,indeed, as if he had run to beard as a mustard plant runs to seed. But when he spoke you found he had a voice as well.”
― h g wells

“WRITE WHAT’S RANDOM. Some writers require chaos to find inspiration. You might be someone who needs a jolt to the system—who needs to tell yourself, on seeing a duck wearing a sun hat, being led on a leash by a child, “I need to write about that duck, that hat, that child.” You don’t require anything more than surprise and the unexpected moment for inspiration. That sudden shock—that introduction of chaos into the world—serves as the catalyst back into writing what’s interesting, personal, or uncomfortable.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

“The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“The Bible is an extremely violent book. The Bible’s got everything in it that’s bannable. It’s gratuitously violent, gratuitously sexual, totally sexist and racist and it does encourage people to be violent, although it does that because of its philosophy, not because of the descriptions of the battles in it.”
― Victoria Mary Clarke, A Drink with Shane MacGowan