Ramsey Campbell famous quotes

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.
-- Ramsey Campbell

#Done #Way #Be True To Yourself

I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
-- Ramsey Campbell

#Commitment #Editors #Clerks

Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I'd say he might just be a genius.
-- Ramsey Campbell

#Honesty #Unique #Vision

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.
-- Ramsey Campbell

#Writing #Cutting #Thinking

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

To justify God's ways to man.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.