Best 14 quotes of John Shirley on MyQuotes

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

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.

Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

When you serve a beer-cock an ear.