Quotes by Mark Z. Danielewski

About Mark Z. Danielewski:

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author, best known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000). Danielewski's work is characterized by experimental choices in form, such as intricate and multi-layered narratives, typographical variation, and inconsistent page layouts, otherwise known as visual writing, or as he refers to it, "signiconic" literature.
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Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing a...

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Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

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Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing insi...

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My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?

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Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

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I must read. I must read. I must read.

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The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

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Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

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Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

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At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of ne...

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I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

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Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

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'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

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My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

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Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

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What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes anything exciting? Or better yet: what is exciting...

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the seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however...

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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

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Noli me tangere, noli me legere, noli me videre, noli me

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Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Z. Danielewski
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornMarch 5, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksHouse Of Leaves