Mark Z. Danielewski

“Her. Her. Her. Future breezes implore me to stay. But I'm no future. I'm no past. Only ever contemporary of this path.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why?…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“the seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" -…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“- Whenever we roam be beside me. When you're allone. When you go. When no one comes along. And for all we…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“However, The haven-Slocum Theory also points out that this course is not without risk. An even greater number of people dwelling on…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“There's only one choice now: finish what Zampanò himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Known some call is air am.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“We did not just go to the stars. We became the stars.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski