William > William's Quotes

“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.”
― William Meikle

“If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.”
― William Meikle, The Hole

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it”
― William Meikle

“I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.”
― Michael McDowell

“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”
― Michael McDowell

“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.”
― Michael McDowell

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency