Gemma Files quotes

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
-- Gemma Files

#Prose #Bits

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
-- Gemma Files

#Book #Creepy #Fascination

I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.
-- Gemma Files

#Stuff #Chance #Back And Forth

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.
-- Gemma Files

#Writing #Views #Poison

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.