A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
Charles NodierThe winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.
Charles NodierStichwörter: winter
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
Charles NodierStichwörter: art writing writers fantasy horror supernatural genre fantastic
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
Charles NodierStichwörter: writing writers stories
It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!
Charles NodierDo not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.
Charles NodierStichwörter: sleep supernatural femme-fatale
In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?...
Charles NodierStichwörter: sleep dreams phantoms
Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is indistinguishable from the abandoned hearth, than a fearful murmur rises amongst them, their teeth chatter with despair and rage, they hasten and scatter in their dread, finding witches everywhere, and ghosts. It is night... and Hell will gape once more.
Charles NodierStichwörter: fear night hell dusk sunset witches ghosts
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
Charles NodierStichwörter: melancholy fall autumn
Tel est le sort facheux de tout livre preté - souvent il est perdu, toujours il est gaté
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