AM > AM's Quotes

“Fiction is life by design.”
― Mary Kittredge

“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.”
― Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

“The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.”
― John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake

“His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.”
― Anais Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

“...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.”
― Iain Sinclair, Slow Chocolate Autopsy

“There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.”
― Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying

“And Ferris had watched Alec go past him out of the door noted the bones...but he never would have connected that ragged man with the honey-and-acid creature who'd insulted him at Diane's house.”
― Ellen Kushner

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world.”
― Eileen Favorite, The Heroines

“To all the wolves of the world for lending their good name as a tangible symbol for our darkness.”
― Ed Young, Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

“His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.”
― Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers