“Don't be a victim of bloodsuckers. They will strengthen themselves at your expense, they throw you when you lose your strength.”
“So,” Lauren said. “You help ghosts with unfulfilled wishes cross over to the astral plane for judgment.”
“Yes.”
“And you hunt demons.”
“Yes.”
“And you’re married to an angel.”
“Yes.”
She paused. “…so basically, you’re Dean Winchester.”
I made an exasperated sound. “I am NOT.”
She smirked. “Yeah, sure.”
Source: The Holy Dark
“Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being read to, or sung to sleep.”
Source: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
“I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo."
"Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?”
Source: Fight Club 2
“I’d normally spare you the details, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of writing a story.”
Source: The Stork Ate My Brother...And Other Totally Believable Stories
“I already killed you once... And I bet you’ll come back again and again... No matter how many times I slaughter you. Your tendency to come back from the brink of death has nothing to do with your healing factor. Your mutant power isn’t regeneration. It’s popularity.”
Source: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe #3
“Don't get me wrong, I'm still not trying to die, but watching Valentino live through his End Day has been rough. It's hard not to feel like the author of his story is some cruel bastard who won't give him any wins. There's so many ways he could've died by now-gunshot or beat down with a bat or smashing his head on the curb or that fall back at the apartment or run over in the middle of the street—and he's surviving for what? To get rejected by his agent, and find out his sister is still stuck back home? I can't celebrate my life knowing his final hours are not working out for him.”
Source: The First to Die at the End
“But I’m sure you, dear Reader, are cleverer
than that. For if it really took only so long as Lydia suspected to save the Zs, then there would be much less of this book left than there is, wouldn’t there?”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“Well, sir," Mr Braynes took a deep breath, "the truth is I do have a strange and wondrous tale to relate; a tale for which the ending has yet to be written."
"You mean Hold's making this up as he goes?"
"Who?"
"Never mind. Please, go on.”
Source: In the Footsteps of Cthulhu
“The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age