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> [“You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they’re going to end up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/you-create-your-characters-set-things-in-motion-and-then-let-those/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

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## More by Laird Barron

> [“When, you wonder, does Sarah go west and build her rambling mansion? Not yet. Soon, but not yet. First, her husband has to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/when-you-wonder-does-sarah-go-west-and-build-her-rambling-mansion-not/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“Like cobblestones, clouds formed a path that led down after the hidden sun, whose glow dyed the clouds a deep, purplish pink.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/like-cobblestones-clouds-formed-a-path-that-led-down-after-the-hidden/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/i-cannot-explain-nor-must-an-artist-defend-his-work-or-elucidate-in/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/a-pretty-mouth-is-a-fine-and-stylish-collection-that-pays-homage-to/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“It grew steadily dimmer, God’s thumb on the dial.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/it-grew-steadily-dimmer-god-s-thumb-on-the-dial/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/horror-is-my-motor-it-gets-to-me-on-an-animal-level-and-satisfies-my/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/pulver-s-skills-as-a-post-beat-visionary-are-in-rare-form-a-house-of/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/the-deepest-cavern-in-the-world-is-the-human-heart/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“—Only fools and the dead never change their mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/only-fools-and-the-dead-never-change-their-mind/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/but-art-is-not-relative-to-perfection-in-any-tangible-sense-it-is-our/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/the-whole-political-mess-the-universal-squalor-the-essential/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“When he looked through the scope it was as if the largest part of him dissolved and what remained was the kernel everything sprang…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/when-he-looked-through-the-scope-it-was-as-if-the-largest-part-of-him/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [“Everyone is looking for the answer. They do not want to find the answer, trust me. Unfortunately, the answer will find them. Life—it’s like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/everyone-is-looking-for-the-answer-they-do-not-want-to-find-the/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/curiosity-did-not-kill-the-cat-all-by-itself/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

> [THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laird-barron/the-testament-of-tall-eagle-is-myth-making-of-epic-scope/)

[Laird Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laird-barron/)

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