Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

We don’t know whether what we found is a chip of ice or the tip of an iceberg.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

All I know is a door into the dark

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Darkness is full of possibility.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

It is good to love the unknown.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.