Connor de Bruler > Quotes

“Pay closer attention to road. Try not to look at the woods on either side of you. Try not to stare into the endless vacuum. You know what happens if you stare into those chasms. They envelop you. They become you, and you become a part of them. You become a part of nothing.”
― Connor de Bruler, Southern Gothic Shorts

“I think it's at least helpful to write in total darkness. That way, you can't see the shadows sneaking up behind you.”
― Connor de Bruler, The Mountain Devils

“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe.”
― Connor de Bruler

“Some artist's greatest work is their own persona and I can only think of what a fleeting and impermanent canvas they've chosen.”
― Connor de Bruler

“Depression is a zoo. Even if it's real, it's behind glass.”
― Connor de Bruler, Goodbye, Moonflower

“I wish I was smart enough to know the difference between relenting like a coward and having the courage to change your mind, which is only another way of saying, I suppose, that I want to know truth.”
― Connor de Bruler

“There are those of us who, in order to endear ourselves to others and not exhaust them, must make ourselves scarce. But, we are the ones who get high marks.”
― Connor de Bruler, LONESOME TRAVELERS: the complete screenplay

“You can understand social conservatism without flirting with its ideals. People want unity and comradery. People enjoy a sense of mutual celebration, shared identity, lineage, and tradition. These ideas aren't what the Nazis and MAGA-hat crowd created, they are only the sugar to make the sickness go down.”
― Connor de Bruler

“I'm sometimes afraid to admit that I was never a voracious reader. I didn't absorb books by the shelf full. At times, I was a very attentive and careful reader, but never at the level of my peers. For me, getting through a paragraph was like swimming through razorwire. I started writing as a way to save face.”
― Connor de Bruler, Fresh Anthology