Top 58 Laymon's Quotes
#1. In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.
Brian Keene
#2. And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face.
Richard Laymon
#3. Now you got us whammied with the curse of squirmy death.
Richard Laymon
#4. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers have paid more than their fair share, and our nation owes them and their children, and their children's children, a lifetime of healthy choices and second chances. That would be responsible.
Kiese Laymon
#5. I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."
Kiese Laymon
#6. Her oceans were as toxic as the race of men who dwelled on her surface and called the blue planet home.
Kevin Laymon
#7. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.
Kiese Laymon
#8. I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.
Kiese Laymon
#9. I'm guessing you're tits deep in a horror novel. Something by Laymon, or Ketchum, or one of those sick fucks you read.
Kyle M. Scott
#10. I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.
Kiese Laymon
#11. If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.
Kiese Laymon
#12. Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must
Richard Laymon
#13. Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.
Kiese Laymon
#14. The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.
Kiese Laymon
#15. Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.
Kiese Laymon
#17. One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.
Kiese Laymon
#18. Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.
Richard Laymon
#19. I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
Kiese Laymon
#20. Daddy binders, bruh?
Obama: Governor Romney loves him some binders, doesn't he.
Kiese Laymon
#21. I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.
Kiese Laymon
#22. It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.
Richard Laymon
#23. I hope this piece of work occupies your mind and impacts your outlook on life for years to come. I seek to inspire you to do great things. The power of the mind is extraordinary and you are capable of anything.
Kevin Laymon
#24. I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.
Kiese Laymon
#25. I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.
Kiese Laymon
#26. The earth is a far a better place, now that she's beneath it.
Richard Laymon
#27. Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.
Richard Laymon
#28. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.
Kiese Laymon
#29. I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.
Kiese Laymon
#30. Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.
Kiese Laymon
#31. The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.
Kiese Laymon
#32. The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.
Kiese Laymon
#33. My eyes are brown. So are my teeth.
Just kidding about the teeth.
Richard Laymon
#34. 4. If you push yourself hard in the direction of freedom, compassion, and excellence, you will recover.
True/False
Kiese Laymon
#35. No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.
Richard Laymon
#36. A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.
Richard Laymon
#38. People always say change takes time. It's true, but really it's people who change people, and then those people have to decide if they really want to stay the new people that they're changed into.
Kiese Laymon
#39. Gonna get me one of them Jeep Cherokees with the four-wheel drive, and go all over the whole country in it.
Richard Laymon
#40. Window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She
Richard Laymon
#41. When you get saved, act like you got some sense. You hear me? Whole lotta folks get saved and it take them an entire life before they start living by God's word. That's them ol' deathbed conversioners, them ol' heathens trying to get to heaven a lifetime too late.
Kiese Laymon
#42. Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.
Kiese Laymon
#43. My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.
Richard Laymon
#44. First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.
Kiese Laymon
#46. the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.
Richard Laymon
#47. Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.
Kiese Laymon
#48. Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.
Kiese Laymon
#49. I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.
Kiese Laymon
#50. Success is contagious when you surround yourself with people who refuse to let you down.
Kevin Laymon
#51. Killing, resurrecting, living with a zombie. Even if she could accept all that,
Richard Laymon
#52. In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
Richard Laymon
#53. I took out my brush and got to brushing the waves on the back of my head.
Kiese Laymon
#54. I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.
Richard Laymon
#55. Wielding a hammer, however, you're at the very heart of the experience, being flooded with wonderful sensations that simply can't be yours if you use a firearm. Now, you might be asking yourself how I came to discover the splendors of hammer attack. I'll tell you. You won't want to hear it, though.
Richard Laymon
#56. That sort of aloneness gives you goosebumps scurrying up your spine. It makes your scalp crawl.
Richard Laymon
#58. We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.
Kiese Laymon
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