#ago

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony. ↗

— Cotton Mather

#ask #asked #deplorable #frequency #hear

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#am #began #called #defending #existence

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#because #best #best time #conditions #doctor

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. ↗

— William Nicholson

#began #chosen #form #i #novel

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#ago #bush #credentials #either #established

In Chicago, we love our crooks! ↗

— David Mamet

#crooks #love #our

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy. ↗

— Ayelet Waldman

#pain #sadness #life

What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.” His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#sacrifice

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humour #meet #immortality

When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn’t have that reaction at all. It was what I sensed in Lovecraft’s works and what I learned about his myth as the “recluse of Providence” that made me think, “That’s for me!” I already had a grim view of existence, so there was no problem there. I was and am agoraphobic, so being reclusive was a snap. The only challenge was whether or not I could actually write horror stories. So I studied fiction writing and wrote every day for years and years until I started to get my stories accepted by small press magazines. I’m not comparing myself to Lovecraft as a person or as a writer, but the rough outline of his life gave me something to aspire to. I don’t know what would have become of me if I hadn’t discovered Lovecraft. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#h-p-lovecraft #horror #writing #life