Dystopian Author Quotes

Jules Verne ….oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order […]

Jules Verne What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! “And what a much bigger book still with all that is […]

Jules Verne What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Jules Verne We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes […]

Isobelle Carmody The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Isobelle Carmody Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear […]

Isobelle Carmody Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until […]

Isobelle Carmody Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Isobelle Carmody She’s forgetting,’ Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. ‘All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will […]