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.
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.”
Source: UnDivided
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“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.
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4), p. 82
