Mark Z. Danielewski

Quotes

• “Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness...”
• “Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just bee...”
• “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about end...”
• “I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not spea...”
• “You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days th...”
• “But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of ...”
• “I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunli...”
• “Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost ...”
• “Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one...”
• “I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets u...”
• “Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free ac...”
• “Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like somethin...”
• “Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my ...”
• “Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to ...”
• “Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrar...”
• “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
• “Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
• “Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it”
• “Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”
• “The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
• “My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?”
• “Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”
• “Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
• “Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.”
• “Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”