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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.


Catherynne M. Valente

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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new...
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE IN THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked an...
BENITA VALENTE Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
BENITA VALENTE Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon...
BENITA VALENTE We're Kansas and the other side is Oz. People think no one lives here. But this is a really active n...
LYNN VALENTE I want to come out of my house and see kids and people enjoying themselves. I grew up in the Marina....
LYNN VALENTE We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space.
LYNN VALENTE That's part of farming; you just have to deal with what you have. Every year is different.
JOE VALENTE He asked to borrow my (cell) phone. When he handed it back, it was full of blood.
JOE VALENTE I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
M. WARD It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ...
M. WARD I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
M. WARD When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out i...
M. WARD I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to ...
M. WARD I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal mean...
M. WARD I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearin...
M. WARD I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that ba...
M. WARD I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck...
M. WARD The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. WARD I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough...
M. WARD I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make ex...
M. WARD I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around ...
M. WARD I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably ...
M. WARD It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. WARD Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. WARD I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti...
M. WARD I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to tw...
M. WARD