"Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable."

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Bentley Little

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.”
“There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.”
“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.”
“From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.”

Source : Loung Ung (2010). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, p.5, Harper Collins
“You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.”
“Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”

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