Cory Doctorow Quotes

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.

My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

And now for something completely different...

I was never the girl next door.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

There is no normality in life.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

My life is certainly not common, but I think of myself as... a 'normal' teenager.

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Every day is bizarre.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.