Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, … - Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Art, Chase, Doomsday, Dying, Finding Yourself

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You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

Atheist, Believe, Eight, Measure, People, Unfortunate

The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.

Drag, Dragging, Fighting, Stories, Writing

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

Daughter, Faded, Social, Song, Suicide, Tell

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Communication, Enough, Mean, Poor, Use

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

Art, Artists, Commerce, Should, Slave