John Crowley

“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,…

— John Crowley

“Like a sun: but a small sun, which she had within her, warming her from the inside out. She was conscious of…

— John Crowley

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

— John Crowley

“While the moon smoothly shifted the shadows from one side of Edgewood to the other, Daily Alice dreamed that she stood in…

— John Crowley

The universe is Time's body.

— John Crowley

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large…

— John Crowley

“And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a…

— John Crowley

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.”

— John Crowley

“Everybody grows up by leaps, and not by a steady climb like a mountaineer.”

— John Crowley

“One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came…

— John Crowley

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity…

— John Crowley

“Snow not falling but flying sidewise, and sudden, not signaled by the slow curdling of clouds all day and a flake or…

— John Crowley

“He knew he would have to believe in order to go where she had been; knew that, if he believed, he could…

— John Crowley

“Can you make a house of cards?" she asked. "Yes," Violet said, and went on looking. This way Violet had of seizing…

— John Crowley

“There are seven windows in the Queen's bedroom in the Citadel that is the center of the City that is on the…

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Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him…

— John Crowley

“Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The…

— John Crowley

“He had the distracted chuckle of troubled old people who look within, keeping watch on failing organs.”

— John Crowley

Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the…

— John Crowley

“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood…

— John Crowley

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you…

— John Crowley

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

— John Crowley

“After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when…

— John Crowley

“Well, they should be glad, then, he said, that we did it, shouldn't they? That we stole Death's death from them, I…

— John Crowley