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July 3, 2014

Quote – Dead Carrying Us On Their Backs

“And we, the dead, bear them on our backs, as we have done a million times. They play on our green grass while the sun slants indulgently over their tousled boy heads.” -Kate Heartfield, The Dead So Near, Lackington’s Issue 1 (http://lackingtons.com/2014/02/13/their-dead-so-near-by-kate-heartfield/)

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June 18, 2014

Quote – Dionysus Drama King

“Dionysus could be a bit of a drama king. Seeing how he was the god of theatre, I suppose it made sense.” – Karen Dudley, Food for the Gods

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June 3, 2014

Quote – Inhabiting Other People’s Lives

“As a writer, I spend hours alone with the blinds drawn against the sun, inhabiting other people’s lives. Any reader who has ever lost themselves in a well-written tale of terror on a stormy night will understand what I mean when i say that I sometimes wonder if we don’t bring the stories back into the world with us by...

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June 1, 2014

Quote – Choice To Do Something About It

“The only choices we have… are to participate in the destruction or do something about it.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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May 26, 2014

Quote – Truth is a Nasty Drug

“Truth. Truth is a nasty drug… Might seem like what you want, until you’ve swallowed it. By then it’s too late – you can’t unlearn it. Ignorance is a lot less painful.” -DD Barant, Dying Bites (St Martin’s, 2009)

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May 17, 2014

Quote – Stories Clothe Us

‘The stories could clothe us and our moments, and we were in a mine of never-ending supply.” -S.M. Beiko – The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013)

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May 2, 2014

Quote – Shades of Loss

“If loss was shaded by guilt or rage or relief, that did not mean that the loss was not real. To give a colour depth required darkness. It did not negate red to add black, it only made it a different kind of red.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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April 25, 2014

Quote – Being A Writer Is A Great Cover

“It occurred to me that being a writer – or even just claiming to be one – was a great cover. You could tell people you were doing a book on just about anything and they’d take you into their confidence.” -Robert J. Sawyer – Red Planet Blues (Ace, 2013)

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April 17, 2014

Quote – Too Fantastic Not To Be True

“I believed everything I read. It was all too fantastic not to be true.” -Claude Lalumiere – The Door to Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications, 2011)

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April 14, 2014

Quote – Writers Need to Show Real Person

“The writer who flinches at exposure, who dares not show the depths of his fears and loves or show what truly matters above all else to him as a real person, will fail to capture any reader’s head or heart.” -Julia Czerneda – Introduction to Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope

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