“It's strange to sleep. Sleep is a mysterious thing even in the simplest of people. When you're sleepy, you seem to be… — Tony Burgess Sleep Copy Share Image
“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in… — Tony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of… — Tony Burgess Consequence Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion.… — Tony Burgess Achieve Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Absurdity Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far… — Tony Burgess Conditions Copy Share Image
“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that… — Tony Burgess Defiance Copy Share Image
As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme… — Tony Burgess Connected Copy Share Image
I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.… — Tony Burgess Attacking Copy Share Image
“It’s my job really, to help you, my reader, in accepting things as real that aren’t. Most books try to get you… — Tony Burgess Accepting things Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying… — Tony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when… — Tony Burgess Accounts Copy Share Image
“If I told you that everything about you had been just made up by someone, that all of your thoughts, all of… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“An Underground that knew all about this, knew all about Les, was preparing to wake up the world and invite it to… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“There is another system, more beaded than weather or murder, that is moving up into the province. As Les leaves the chair… — Tony Burgess Language Copy Share Image
“In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that… — Tony Burgess Identity Copy Share Image
