Damian Murphy

“...it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.”
― François Augiéras, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
― Francis Bacon

“The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story”
― Walter Benjamin

“I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my feeling excluded and so on in what might be called “the scene.” There appears to be a particular divide in literature that has “description” and all it implies, as its focus. Some people hate “fancy writing,” and just want to “cut to the chase,” and so on. This attitude deeply irritates me. If you can’t try and take words to their limit in the field of literature, then where can you? I actually think that variety is good, but it’s usually the enemies of “fancy writing” who also seem to deplore variety and believe that there’s only one way to write—without adverbs etc. etc.”
― Quentin S. Crisp