Timothy Hickson > Quotes

“Doom awaits those that write vampire-romances with one-dimensional characters.”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I

“You imagine every twitch of their pain as your own; you take it into yourself and incorporate it into your being, and it wrenches at every lever of feeling till you cry, and you want to cry. You want to feel the vicious pain because it is the only metric of empathy you can offer.”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity

“[Empires] fall for a host of reasons: economic downturn, infighting, engaging in a land war in Asia, or going against a Sicilian when death is on the line." p. 205, Part XVI How Empires Fall”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I

“I didn’t ask how it would be different because I didn’t really want to know. I wanted to remain infatuated and awestruck…”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity

“I saw the constellations humans made for themselves from nothing but points of light in the night sky…”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding

“write the story you want to tell. This is our only responsibility as writers.”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I

“Why would creatures… who could build and write such beautiful things, let themselves forget?”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity

“an author owes no obligation in their work other than to write the story they wish to read.”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I

“I have seen many beginnings, I have seen the end, and I have seen all that lies in between. I do not know what it means.”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity

“… they only remembered they were important, but not why.”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity