Paul Kingsnorth Quotes

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.