Quotes by : Edward Gorey

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought....

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is....

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am....

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly....

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried....

A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually....

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of....

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really....