Michael West > Michael's Quotes

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

“That which is imagined can never be lost.”
― Clive Barker, Weave World

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”
― Rod Serling

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“This is the way the world ends-not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.”
― Amanda Hocking, Hollowland