37 Quotes by John Shirley

I get drunk writing words. I don’t drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I’m incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it’s integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It’s in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.

I’m trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I’m not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

I’m disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

I’m just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

So you see, a man’s history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion.