John Shirley Quotes

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
John Shirley

Paranoia, Skill, Doses

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley

Good, Bit, Distance

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
John Shirley

Great, Care, Sometimes

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
John Shirley

Work, Help, Hard

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
John Shirley

Drunk, Writing, Words

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
John Shirley

Nature, Empathy, Cursed

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
John Shirley

Writing, Social, Heavy

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley

Enough, Quite, Capable

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
John Shirley

Thinking, Trying, Culture

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
John Shirley

Mind, State, Innocence

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
John Shirley

Nature, Try, Working

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
John Shirley

Alive, Normal, Perhaps

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 10, 1953

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