133 Quotes by Steve Erickson

Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.