I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or convulsive beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Jeff Vandermeer
My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world.
apocalypse fantasy nightmares
They'll never forget, never forgive, no matter who the enemy is, son. Better just to start a new life. Be someone else.
life
It looked like lively abstract art. Symbols in search of context.
symbols art
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?
literature nature
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
thetimes time
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
history
liberty beauty
A fresh river in a beautiful meadow Imagined in his mind The good Painter, who would some day paint it
mind
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
style
I could not move or speak for several minutes, frozen in the belief that the book itself had changed and was now writing me.
belief
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