Datlow Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Sigourney Weaver

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Georges Courteline

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

Heidi R. Kling

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

Alexei Sayle

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

Ian Fleming

#13. 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

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

David Hilbert

#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. 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

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

Ellen Datlow

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. - 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

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

Ellen Datlow

#23. 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

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

Peter Bagge

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

Ellen Datlow

#26. 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

#27. Never throw up on an editor.

Ellen Datlow