72 Quotes by Christopher Priest

Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.

Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslaptį ir kamuojasi dėl jos taip niekada ir nepriartėdami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.

Life could only be lived to the full by the instinctive or unconscious denial of death, otherwise nothing would ever be achieved

J’avais atteint l’âge de mille kilomètres. De l’autre côté de la porte, les membres de la guilde des Topographes du Futur s’assemblaient pour la cérémonie qui ferait de moi apprenti. Au-delà de l’impatience et de l’appréhension de l’instant, en quelques minutes allait se jouer ma vie.

I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.

There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.

Whatever else you may think, this place is not the centre of the universe.”“It is,” he said. “Because if we ever stopped believing that, we would all die.

The dream-state of the Archipelago, which is what we islanders most respond to, and least wish to see changed, seems likely to continue without interference for a long time to come.