The Affirmation Quotes

“I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation

“As we grow we do not see ourselves changing – there is the apparent continuity of the mirror, the daily awareness of immediate past – and it takes the reminders of old photographs or old friends to point out the differences.”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation

“...words are only as valid as the mind that chooses them, so that of essence all prose is a form of deception.”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation

“The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the abyss . . . but the primeval fear that afterwards one might remember it. The”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation

“There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.
There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation

“Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.”
― Christopher Priest, The Affirmation