It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared – as it always should be.
H. P. LOVECRAFTIt would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared – as it always should be.
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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