Glen Krisch > Glen's Quotes

“Standing before him, the blight of idyllic thought and aspiration--rotting souls reproducing like fleas.”
― Glen Krisch

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

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final days.”
― Glen Krisch, The Nightmare Within

“You know when you've got nothing in particular to do, nothing to stay awake for? When your life is just routine and it doesn't feel like it belongs to you, how you feel tired and listless and everything seems like too much effort?

Well, it's like that, but it's much worse, because everything is much worse these days. Everything that's bad is worse, believe me. There are whole Neighborhoods out there where no one has anything to do all their lives. They're born, and from the moment they hit the table, there's nothing to do. They clamber to their feet occasionally, realize there's nothing to do and sit down again. They grow up, and there's nothing to do; they grow up, and there's still nothing. They spend their whole lives indoors, in armchairs, in bed, wondering who they are.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
― Wendell Berry

“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.”
― John L. Parker Jr.

“Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke

“No one ever has the answers you need, the ones you want most, the ones you whisper as you lay alone in your bed with the lights extinguished and the lonely ache of loss settling in.”
― Lee Thompson, The Dampness Of Mourning

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Can you understand what it's like to miss something so terribly that you'll accept even the shadow of its memory to keep your heart from withering away?" -From "Danaïd Night”
― Gary A. Braunbeck, Rose of Sharon and Other Stories

“Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live