Andrew Barger > Quotes

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”
― Andrew Barger, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles: A Collection of Dark Tales

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology

“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California.”

EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS
FEBRUARY 14, 1849”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

“. . . never seen him inspired by any more dangerous stimulant than strong coffee, of which he was very fond & of which [he] drank freely. MacIntosh says that the measure of a man's brain is the amount of coffee he can drink with impunity.

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (POE'S FIANCÉE) TO JOHN INGRAM
DECEMBER 13, 1874”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“He is our man's-man of literature.”
― Andrew Barger, Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems

“If you can’t laugh at your life, then your life is a punchline in a bad joke.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Cruising in Paradise

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

“All Ghosts Are Gray”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades

“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology

“boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

“People talk and rumors follow,” I said.
“Most people claim that only a person possessed of the devil could write such horror.”
“And what do you think?”
“You are an angel to me, Eddy, but never bet the devil your head.”
“That would make a great title for a story,” I observed.”
― Andrew Barger

“Even the moon was embarrassed by the beauty of Barcelona.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”
― Andrew Barger, The Brownie of the Alabaster Mansion: A Short Story

“Bea broke up the band.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades

“Blondes make nice pets.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades

“Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology

“Groupies will give you Chlamydia, Edward.”
“Right, Virg. Groupies throw underwear on stage. They don’t throw flowers.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)

“It would be easier to separate salt from the seas than Edgar Allan Poe’s influence from our literature.”
― Andrew Barger, Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849

“Whatcha doin' Frank, fishin'? Nope, just drowning worms”
― Andrew Barger

“Cold as cod.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)

“Give me a reason to push my Dislike button.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)

“La Sagrada Familia is the best thing to come out of Spain since ‘Don Quixote.”
― Andrew Barger, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)