87 Quotes by Anthony Marais

Creating a piece of writing is really the easiest thing in the world—about as natural as creating excrement (and many writers will, indeed, describe their work as such).

Everyone thinks alchemy is dead, but alchemists live among us—they are called editors: adept in the art of transformation, they practice arcane methods of selection, deletion and synthesis to take what is base and produce gold.

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Atheists believe simplicity is a virtue when it is precisely this that weighs so heavily on their souls.

Atheism is having the weight of doubt lifted, just to be replaced with the weight of mortality.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.