Born this date in 1945 was Whitley Strieber, an American author best known for his horror novels. Here are 10 quotes from him.
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen – that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
It’s time for us to wake up and face the truth, that we are a captive species on a prison planet.
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters.
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
Old enough to know better, but too young to care.
Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark.
It is very easy to claim a theory of everything if you get to decide what that everything is. It is very easy to explain everything on the table if you have put everything you cannot explain underneath it in the wastebasket.
Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.
New!!!
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
No comments:
Post a Comment