John Shirley Quotes

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

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 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.

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

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

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.

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.

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

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.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

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.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.