Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
New York City
New York
Truant
Scared
Cause
Causes
Maybe
Wish
Death
Thing
More quotes by Mark Z. Danielewski
Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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.
Mark Z. Danielewski
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
Mark Z. Danielewski
Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Not all complex problems have easy solutions so says science (so warns science.)
Mark Z. Danielewski
I'm not independently wealthy.
Mark Z. Danielewski
One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.
Mark Z. Danielewski
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Who has never killed an hour?
Mark Z. Danielewski
Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.
Mark Z. Danielewski
I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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. Probably not even real
Mark Z. Danielewski
So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through then there is reason for doing it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
Mark Z. Danielewski
I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.
Mark Z. Danielewski
...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
Mark Z. Danielewski