Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Goreywas an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
circumstances happenings dues
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
black firsts stopping
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
may damage possibility
I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.
people findings
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
journey window my-favorite
My favorite journey is looking out the window.
children thinking trying
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.
book cat life-is-good
Books, Cats, Life is Good.
believe long realizing
There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
dream people scream
It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
writing thinking boredom
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
drawing might creeps
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
art boring theory
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
thinking world life-is
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
going-away important facts
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.