Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“ We like monsters, ” he said.
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 Victor LaValle
The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.
Before September 11, the skinny, jittery black guy made security think one thing: drug mule. But after the attacks, security only cared about bombs. So it was the Arab guys, the Puerto Ricans and Indians, even white men, that got searched. I was too dark...
Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing.
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
That’s the funny thing, ” she said. “Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all...
