Caitlín R. Kiernan

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“We ordered Chinese takeout, and my fortune cookie said, “Don’t stop now.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Consider," she said, "what it is, a unicorn. It is the incarnation of purity, an avatar of innocence. And here is the…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“So, here are my windows, stained all with me.”

— Caitlin R. Kiernan

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“The divine is always abominable. "Houses Under The Sea”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean…

— Caitlin R. Kiernan

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“if dreams may be called passions. I see no reason not to call them passions”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan