Caitlín R. Kiernan Short Quotes

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Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
I sincerely hope I'm not as big a fool as that. Whatever else I may be, I like to think that I'm not an idiot.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
If there must be resolution and explanation, it must be something worth its weight in mystery. Most times, I'd be content with the mystery.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
I'm not sure if erotica should be angry and grim and terrifying and bitter, but it works for me. I rode my frustration. I kicked the bitch in the ribs until it spat up what I needed.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
I've seen so goddamn much — I've seen so much that there's no reasonable excuse for looking away, because there can't be anything left that's more terrible than what has come before.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Yesterday was an utter waste. An artist, of whatever stripe, has only so many days, to write or paint or dance or whatever, and each one wasted is that much that will never be accomplished.

Caitlín R. Kiernan