Quotes from Isaac Marion

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

God has made us study partner. We need to talk about our project.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What's at our core, then? What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.