Disasters Quote by Margaret Atwood

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”

— Horace Walpole

“When all else fails…everyone is gagging…and the stove is on fire…I read the recipe.”

— Laury Falter

“In my head, when the gales are riding wild, I steer towards catastrophe then write about it.”

— Robin Robertson

“Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions”

— Madeline Sheehan

“Folks woke up today to a poisoned world, and some of them won't see any reason to hold back on doing the awful things…

— Joe Hill

“But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus…

— Joseph Conrad

“He had a lot of enemies. But whether those folks were wronged or just jealous is hard to say. Stories have a way of…

— Hannah Kent

“There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in…

— Emma Cline

“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It…

— Stephen King

“By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.”

— Winston Churchill