Quotes by : Caitlín R. Kiernan

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that....

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of....

Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and....

Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault.....

In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against her....

Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fucking....

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid it's looking back at what we've lived through....

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or....

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think....

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here....