“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms, The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool.”
interview with 3am
Context: The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors so of course all those connections will be there. But you've also granted the fantastic its own dynamic and allowed that awe. There's no contradiction. So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. There's no contradiction.
The Foghorn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post (1951) with the title "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.”
The Boys from Brazil (1976)
