Quoteworthy

The quotes of the day have been building up while I've had nothing to say. (Hard to believe, I know.) So here they are:

Quotes of the day:

"Maps of the world in older times used to fill in the blanks of explorations with an array of fantastic creatures, dragons, sea monsters, fierce winged beasts. It appears that the human mind cannot bear very much blankness—where we do not know, we invent, and what we invent reflects our fear of what we do not know."

—Diane Purkiss, At the Bottom of the Garden

(Great book, btw. All about the creatures of nightmare and imagination we create—fairies and phantasms—and how that has changed over time with our own needs and desires.)


"You create your fear. It's not out there like an infectious disease. Mostly it comes from love. When you love something so much you can't bear to lose it, the fear's always nearby."

—Jonathan Carroll, The Wooden Sea

(A good novel. But like most Jonathan Carroll books I've read, just a little heartbreaking.)


"Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to."

—Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song

(One of my all time favorite writers and a big influence, and this is one of my favorites.)


"There isn't a writer alive who doesn't believe flattery. The entire strange cursed race thinks that someday their scribblings will have a place in God's eternal bookshelf."

—Don Webb, "Our Novel"

(A hilarious story that was in F&SF a few years back. Rather cringeworthy, as well.)