Steve Mosby > Quotes

“Have you ever had somebody grip you with a passion you never thought existed outside the fucking movies? As though they found you the most precious thing in the world? I felt it then, and couldn't believe that somebody would actually want me that much. I don't believe in Heaven as a place, but I sometimes think that if a person could write down how I felt at just that moment - if they could describe it perfectly - then that sentence would be something like Heaven to me. And as a final resting place, I'd be happy to have my name shrunk down and rested, invisibly, on the collar of the full stop at the end.”
― Steve Mosby, The Third Person

“Clouds don't matter much at night-time. It's only when there's a sun for them to cover that the world falls dark. ”
― Steve Mosby, The Third Person

“I’ve always liked this Nietzsche quote: “You must still have chaos in yourself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” There’s a lot to love about that, I think. Not least, personally, as it gives me hope that whatever sprawling, chaotic, nonsensical draft I’m working on might eventually turn out good. In writing as in life.”
― Steve Mosby

“I always want to be as original as I can be. It’s a bit of a cliché to say, but the idea is to write a ‘novel’, and I don’t see any point in just rehashing stuff that’s gone before, no matter what the commercial benefits. My gut feeling is that patterns are bad – and I mean that as much for readers as for writers. The problem with publishing, if there is one, is the search for patterns, and the pigeonholing that goes along with it. I do understand it – it’s a natural consequence of the commodification of anything – but it’s something I constantly feel the need to negotiate with myself, at least, if not subvert as much as possible.”
― Steve Mosby

“I had no idea how to square that particular circle.”
― Steve Mosby, You Can Run

“You could attempt to draw any line you wanted, but wet ink always seeped down the page.”
― Steve Mosby, The Reckoning on Cane Hill

“It’s the tension we feel between the desire to erase and forget and the need to always remember, and that only happens after you know, never before.”
― Steve Mosby, You Can Run