I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Where is the writer,” he began, “who is unstained by any habits of the human, who is the ideal of everything alien… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The supernatural, and all it represents, is profoundly abnormal, and therefore unreal. Few would argue with these conclusions. Fine. Now the highest… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The dismembered limbs of dolls and puppets are strewn about everywhere. Posters, signs, billboards, and leaflets of various sorts are scattered around like playing… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
