Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like something's waiting.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.

I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.