William Meikle > Quotes

“People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they’ll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That’s why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world”
― William Meikle

“he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.”
― William Meikle, Night of the Wendigo

“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it”
― William Meikle

“OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me.”
― William Meikle

“The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28 days. Your heart beats in a rhythm particular only to you. Everything has its drumbeat and everything contributes to the dance. You’ve just got to know when to lead and when to follow.”
― William Meikle, The Concordances of the Red Serpent

“If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.”
― William Meikle

“Big beasties, swordplay, aliens, guns, ghosts, vampires, eldritch things from beyond and slime. A lot of slime.”
― William Meikle

“Life is an opportunity to create meaning by our deeds, our actions and how we manage our way through the short part of infinity we're given to operate in. And once our life is finished, our atoms go back to forming other interesting configurations with those of other people, animals, plants and anything else that happens to be around, as we all roll along in one big, ever changing, universe.”
― William Meikle, The Concordances of the Red Serpent

“If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.”
― William Meikle, The Hole

“I do not believe in demons," I said, mostly to reassure myself that I had not, in fact, witnessed what I had seen.

Churchill laughed.

"I don't think he cares, old man.”
― William Meikle, Carnacki: The Edinburgh Townhouse and Other Stories

“Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it”
― William Meikle

“The darkness continued to press, hard, against all of my defenses. I struggled for breath, felt coldness pour down my throat, salty again, like the sea, and the dark swelled and closed in even tighter.”
― William Meikle, Operation Antarctica

“People have always known that there’s another place, another where. And some, like me, are able to pierce the veil that separates the worlds, and even on occasion pass through. Some like me… and you.”
― William Meikle, AFTER DEATH: FOLK SONGS: Three Weird Tales of Music and Song

“I looked out of the front porch”
― William Meikle, Aboard the Vordlak

“Her long black hair hung heavy on her shoulders, her eyes were deep, chocolate brown, and a nametag over her left breast said ‘Eileen’. “What’s the other one called “ I said. “Right tit “ she said. “Which describes you perfectly.” I liked her.”
― William Meikle, The Midnight Eye Files: Omnibus 1

“Actually, the quotation is more accurately depicted as 'Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.' Proverbs, chapter sixteen, verse eighteen.”
― William Meikle, The Hackney Horror: A Weird Sherlock Holmes Adventure

“Not nuclear or chemical. Biological,” Banks replied. “The colonel says that the word is it’s more in the line of a rich man’s zoo—exotic animals and such. Some Russian oilman’s plaything is what I was told. Why it warrants a UN inspection is above our pay grade. The job’s as simple as fuck.”
― William Meikle, Operation: Siberia

“There might be fish in there, but if there were, they were living on the cigarette ends that were getting pushed around the surface by a sluggish fountain that burped and belched like an asthmatic cow.”
― William Meikle, The Midnight Eye Files: Omnibus 1

“But you’d best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground.” “Fine words for a pastor,” Jake said. “No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord,” the pastor said with a straight face. “Now you’re just making shit up,” Jake replied.”
― William Meikle, The Valley

“he was either ill or very old; he’d taken the stairs like he was climbing a mountain with a Sherpa on his back.”
― William Meikle, Home is the Sailor