Literary Birthday – 10 February – John Shirley
Happy Birthday, John Shirley, born 10 February 1953.
John Shirley Quotes
- I get drunk writing words. I don’t drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
- I’m trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
- Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognise artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It’s in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
- I’m disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories, and so on blur their minds.
- I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.
John Shirley is an American author. He gained his initial reputation as a cyberpunk (a sub-genre of science fiction set in a dystopian future) writer. He has written novels, short stories, TV scripts, screenplays, lyrics, poetry, songs, and various forms of nonfiction. His books include Demons; Crawlers; Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories; and the classic cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. He is the recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others.
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