72 Quotes by Christopher Priest

Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.

The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.

I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles.

As we grow we do not see ourselves changing – there is the apparent continuity of the mirror, the daily awareness of immediate past – and it takes the reminders of old photographs or old friends to point out the differences.

To aspire to life forever would be to acquire living at the expense of life.

When once before I wished myself dead, the wish was not strong enough. I can make myself die only by convincing myself that there is also a hope I shall not succeed.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.

Less welcome to the people of Paneron is the STIFLER, a humid wind that brings the allergenic pollen of carp-weed bushes from nearby unpopulated islands.

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.