Top 60 Kelly Link Quotes (2024 Update)

Kelly Link Quote: “Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.”

1. “Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.”

Kelly Link Quote: “We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned – honey marooned – on this bed for days.”

2. “We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned – honey marooned – on this bed for days.”

Kelly Link Quote: “You should never poison a witch.”

3. “You should never poison a witch.”

Kelly Link Quote: “You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place.”

4. “You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.”

5. “Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.”

Kelly Link Quote: “A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

6. “A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

Kelly Link Quote: “What happens when you get to the end of the world? Sometimes you find a party. This party has been going on for a long time. There is music, lights, people drinking and dancing. Strange things happen at these parties. It is the end of the world, after all.”

7. “What happens when you get to the end of the world? Sometimes you find a party. This party has been going on for a long time. There is music, lights, people drinking and dancing. Strange things happen at these parties. It is the end of the world, after all.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don’t they?”

8. “Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don’t they?”

Kelly Link Quote: “Most of My Friends are two-thirds water.”

9. “Most of My Friends are two-thirds water.”

Kelly Link Quote: “I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we’re being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.”

10. “I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we’re being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There’s no such thing as a normal childhood. What’s useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.”

11. “Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There’s no such thing as a normal childhood. What’s useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.”

Kelly Link Quote: “It’s very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.”

12. “It’s very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.”

Kelly Link Quote: “The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don’t trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.”

13. “The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don’t trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.”

Kelly Link Quote: “I don’t think I’m cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.”

14. “I don’t think I’m cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.”

Kelly Link Quote: “I’m not good at the friends thing. I’m the human equivalent of one of those baby birds that fall out of a nest and then some nice person picks the baby bird up and puts it back. Except that now the baby bird smells all wrong. I think I smell wrong.”

15. “I’m not good at the friends thing. I’m the human equivalent of one of those baby birds that fall out of a nest and then some nice person picks the baby bird up and puts it back. Except that now the baby bird smells all wrong. I think I smell wrong.”

Kelly Link Quote: “You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It’s very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”

16. “You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It’s very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

17. “Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

18. “Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

Kelly Link Quote: “No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they’ve tried, they’ve only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It’s better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.”

19. “No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they’ve tried, they’ve only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It’s better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Because love isn’t just love. It’s all the other stuff, too.”

20. “Because love isn’t just love. It’s all the other stuff, too.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.”

21. “Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.”

Kelly Link Quote: “She put her feet down gently. The whole world was made of glass, and the glass was full of champagne, and Bunnatine was a bubble, just flicking up and up and up.”

22. “She put her feet down gently. The whole world was made of glass, and the glass was full of champagne, and Bunnatine was a bubble, just flicking up and up and up.”

Kelly Link Quote: “She said, “So my question is this. Does Angel the vampire keep a pair of black leather pants in his closet? Just in case? Like fat pants? Do vampires have closets? Or does he donate his evil pants to Goodwill when he’s good again? Because if so then every time he turns evil, he has to go buy new evil pants.”

23. “She said, “So my question is this. Does Angel the vampire keep a pair of black leather pants in his closet? Just in case? Like fat pants? Do vampires have closets? Or does he donate his evil pants to Goodwill when he’s good again? Because if so then every time he turns evil, he has to go buy new evil pants.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another’s moons. You are holding onto my feet with both hands, as if otherwise you might fall right off the bed. I think I might float up and hit the ceiling, splat, if you let go. Please don’t let go.”

24. “Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another’s moons. You are holding onto my feet with both hands, as if otherwise you might fall right off the bed. I think I might float up and hit the ceiling, splat, if you let go. Please don’t let go.”

Kelly Link Quote: “I’d be flattered if someone said that my work is “too weird” for them. I value the uncompliment.”

25. “I’d be flattered if someone said that my work is “too weird” for them. I value the uncompliment.”

Kelly Link Quote: “How could I love you? How could I love a ghost? How could I love something that I have to keep hidden in my pocket?”

26. “How could I love you? How could I love a ghost? How could I love something that I have to keep hidden in my pocket?”

Kelly Link Quote: “As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room – not often – two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”

27. “As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room – not often – two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”

Kelly Link Quote: “The face, the whole body, the way you moved in it, just a guise. You put it on, you put it off again. What was underneath belonged to you, just you, as long as you kept it hidden.”

28. “The face, the whole body, the way you moved in it, just a guise. You put it on, you put it off again. What was underneath belonged to you, just you, as long as you kept it hidden.”

Kelly Link Quote: “The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”

29. “The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Her voice is furry and sharp, like a blanket made of needles.”

30. “Her voice is furry and sharp, like a blanket made of needles.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.”

31. “Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.”

Kelly Link Quote: “The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?”

32. “The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?”

Kelly Link Quote: “Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.”

33. “Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.”

Kelly Link Quote: “What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let’s say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that’s also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.”

34. “What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let’s say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that’s also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.”

Kelly Link Quote: “When one cannot afford a scandal, a blackmailer is an excellent bargain.”

35. “When one cannot afford a scandal, a blackmailer is an excellent bargain.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Wizards are always hungry.”

36. “Wizards are always hungry.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.”

37. “Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.”

38. “Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.”

Kelly Link Quote: “The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.”

39. “The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.”

Kelly Link Quote: “How many witches are there in the world? Have you ever seen one? Would you know a witch if you saw one? And what would you do if you saw one? For that matter, do you know a cat when you see one? Are you sure?”

40. “How many witches are there in the world? Have you ever seen one? Would you know a witch if you saw one? And what would you do if you saw one? For that matter, do you know a cat when you see one? Are you sure?”

Kelly Link Quote: “I’m grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It’s harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I’ve lost perspective. Mostly I’m just glad that I can be done with them.”

41. “I’m grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It’s harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I’ve lost perspective. Mostly I’m just glad that I can be done with them.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.”

42. “Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.”

Kelly Link Quote: “You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.”

43. “You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.”

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Kelly Link Quote: “In terms of style, too, I think I’ve been working with a somewhat limited – although intentionally limited – set of tools. So I’m attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.”

44. “In terms of style, too, I think I’ve been working with a somewhat limited – although intentionally limited – set of tools. So I’m attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.”

Kelly Link Quote: “So what do you think? Should the toothpaste and the condiments go next to the Elmer’s glue and the hair gel and lubricants? Make a shelf of sticky things? Or should I put it with the chewing tobacco and the mouth-wash, and make a little display of things that you spit?”

45. “So what do you think? Should the toothpaste and the condiments go next to the Elmer’s glue and the hair gel and lubricants? Make a shelf of sticky things? Or should I put it with the chewing tobacco and the mouth-wash, and make a little display of things that you spit?”

Kelly Link Quote: “You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It’s hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren’t quite ready to give up on him yet.”

46. “You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It’s hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren’t quite ready to give up on him yet.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Her chest feels very tight, as if she’s suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you’re the bomb.”

47. “Her chest feels very tight, as if she’s suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you’re the bomb.”

Kelly Link Quote: “Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That’s all the fire Prometheus had to give us.”

48. “Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That’s all the fire Prometheus had to give us.”

Kelly Link Quote: “She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.”

49. “She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.”

Kelly Link Quote: “I don’t abandon stories once I’ve started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.”

50. “I don’t abandon stories once I’ve started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.”

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