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“Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, ironically, a major sign of bad writing. But I knew Roz would have encountered that a lot in her career as editor of books by authors other than me, and would no doubt have employed it herself to fix failing narratives in desperate situations, and thus I used it here to snap her attention back from her own internal abyss.”
― Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

“I’m a fugitive from the ways of this world. I’d be a fugitive from my mind if I had me some snow.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

“I believed that I had conceived the vastest dream of my generation: I wanted to be a magician. That was my idea of glory. Here is a plea based on my whole experience: do not be a magician, be magic.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“It is romantic to be cursed, to feel like the world has it out for you. That there is a deity bored enough to disrupt your ecstasy.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension