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Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, no...

Edward Gorey

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, no...

Tags: iceland, past, present

The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon.

Edward Gorey

The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon.

Tags: edward gorey, suicide

About Author
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.

Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

Edward Gorey

Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

Tags: letter art, letter writing, letters

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the surface th...

Edward Gorey

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the surface th...

Tags: art theory, but is it art, theory

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Edward Gorey

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Tags: humour, inspirational, macabre

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?Gorey: That I don't have one

Edward Gorey

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?Gorey: That I don't have one

I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cu...

Edward Gorey

I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cu...

Tags: fantomas

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Edward Gorey

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dB...

Edward Gorey

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dB...

Tags: reading, writing

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

Edward Gorey

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

Tags: moors, moors murders, myra hindley, the moors murders

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.

Edward Gorey

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.

My least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Edward Gorey

My least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

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

Edward Gorey

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

Tags: author, short story, writing

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

Edward Gorey

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Edward Gorey

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.

Edward Gorey

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.

Tags: kindness, speeding

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

Edward Gorey

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

We did I think talk about your feeling of it's fun to be square, and while I'll go along with the Borges-like ramifications, I don't think I was the one who thought it up. In the past my justification...

Edward Gorey

We did I think talk about your feeling of it's fun to be square, and while I'll go along with the Borges-like ramifications, I don't think I was the one who thought it up. In the past my justification...

Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cous...

Edward Gorey

Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cous...

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

Edward Gorey

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.