You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want...
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Anonymous
...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...
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John Geddes
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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Colson Whitehead
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they...
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Ransom Riggs
What was the purpose of a woman monster? It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for?
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Kristin Cashore
More Quotes By Clive Barker
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I...
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final...
