Datlow Quotes

#1. Never throw up on an editor.

Ellen Datlow

#2. I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you.

Ellen Datlow

#3. Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Ellen Datlow

#4. You take one step closer and I'll slit your throat, you mung-encrusted camel-fucker.

Peter Bagge

#5. When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

#6. Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

Ellen Datlow

#7. The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

Ellen Datlow

#8. - Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.

Ellen Datlow

#9. I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.

Ellen Datlow

#10. I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Penelope Cruz

#11. The things you have heard are true; we are the mothers of monsters. We would, however, like to clarify a few points. For instance, by the time we realized what Jeffrey had been up to, he was gone.

Ellen Datlow

#12. Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

Ellen Datlow

#13. You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

John Oliver

#14. I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

Ellen Datlow

#15. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer
both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Bram Stoker

#16. The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

#17. I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

Ellen Datlow

#18. In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

Ian Fleming

#19. Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

Alexei Sayle

#20. Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.

Heidi R. Kling

#21. If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Georges Courteline

#22. I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.

Ellen Datlow

#23. I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

Ellen Datlow

#24. Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

Ellen Datlow

#25. I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

Ellen Datlow

#26. Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.

Ellen Datlow

#27. Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver