Caitlín R. Kiernan

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“No one ever said you have to be dead and buried to be a ghost. Or if they did, they were wrong.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk." "Anyone ever told you you're sort of a…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.”

— 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

The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“A normalidade é um comprimido amargo do qual reclamamos.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“...and for the first time in her life the tears that had always seemed to flow so easily, had always been there,…

— Caitlin R. Kiernan

“Wanting to be drunk, needing to stay sober.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan