Caitlín R. Kiernan Quotes

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea...

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come a...

Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a ...

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that ...

Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fu...

I think I might have something for you today," he says, reaches beneath the counter, and his hand co...

You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she alread...

I don't judge a scene or a line of dialog by whether or not it advances the plot, for example. Imagi...

I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine ...

In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against h...

It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what...

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of...

That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing an...

Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and...

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madnes...

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear...

After Abalyn said what she said, I panicked. Someone tells me I can't remember what I definitely do ...

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and y...

The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea

Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the hor...

I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not arou...

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that...

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-y...

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down her...

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral ...

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany...

I began to imagine orchestration where before I heard only the cacophony of randomness. Crazy people...

And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of ...

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I th...

You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people...