Assorted Quote by Steven Erikson

“As he lifted the leather-bound cover, the musty smell of paper rose up. He turned the first mottled leaf and looked down at an…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie…

— Mervyn Peake

“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing…

— Mervyn Peake

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

— William Shakespeare

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty…

— Richard Dawkins

“He came cripping slowly back up the driveway - when an African remembrance flashed into his mind, and near the front of the house…

— Alex Haley

“Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires…

— Mervyn Peake

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous…

— Gerald Durrell

“Monday ushers in a particularly impressive clientele of red-eyed people properly pressed into dry-cleaned suits in neutral tones. They leave their equally well-buttoned children…

— Amanda Sledz

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles…

— Diane Ackerman

“Not that I am totally obsessed with merchantry!” said Glasswort Groof as she led them in an artful circle round the Market. “Goblins are…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge