Skip to content

Portrait of Jay Lake

Jay Lake

(1964–2014) Novelist United States

8 quotes in 32 categories

Jay Lake was a novelist from the United States, best known for Metatropolis.

Quick Facts About Jay Lake

Born: June 6, 1964
Died: June 1, 2014
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Metatropolis

About Jay Lake

Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake Jr. was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in Portland, Oregon, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Astounding Award for Best New Writer Locus Award for Best Collection

Quotes by Jay Lake

“The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of…

Image

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth…

Feels

Image

“We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our…

Truth

Image

“Just don’t ask questions.” Chillicothe mimed a pistol with the fingers of her left hand. “Some answers are permanent fatal errors.”

Answers

Image

Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs…

Abuse

Image

“Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.”

Beliefs

Image

“Do not teach your congregation to pray. Someday they might succeed.”

Image

“Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.”

Common decency

Image