Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong.

To read actually comes from the Latin reri to calculate, to think which is not only the progenitor of read but of reason as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein to fit. Aside from giving...

We did not just go to the stars. We became the stars.

We stopped talking about Zampanô then. She paged her friend Christina who took less than twenty minutes to come over. There were no introductions. We just sat down on the floor and snorted lines of co...

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

the seriousness of emotional deprivation:It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so...

Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampanò's courtyard darken.Everything whimsical has left.I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the mo...

Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was So?The boat's gone. So?Your mate's dea...

Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense o...

But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction th...

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

I must read. I must read.I must read.

It's too annoying. Too me.

Navidson's troubles might not have created the house, but they did ultimately shape the way he faced it.

Never fear your fear. I am close. Don't forget. I am here. In losing your vision enlighten your own undertakings. In leaving our vision enlighten your own understanding. Always.I think you get this wa...

Our newness lies only in parts rearranged.

There's only one choice now: finish what Zampanò himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book.

She still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns...