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these are quotes from Marilyn Manson about his upcoming novel.
for the most part they're in chronological order.
if i've missed any, please advise.
"Also, I would like to clarify that my film project has not been cancelled. I have just decided to focus on the album and the 2 books first so that my story can be enjoyed or hated in its true form. While the book of images is still being created, the novel Holy Wood has been written for some time. It is not an adaptation of the script and it is not a "graphic novel." (Official BBS post, 03/00)
"So I decided to just put [the movie] in its original form as a novel and I'm going to release that shortly after the record." (MTV news, 05/00)
"[The album] was supposed to come out with a book and a movie by Jodorowsky, but don't worry, the project isn't cancelled." (RadioActivo Interview (translated), 06/21/00)
"When the people see the book that is going to be released after the album, they will go back to AntiChrist SuperStar and Mechanical Animals and will realize the relation of the lyrics and the story of the 3 albums." (RadioActivo Interview (translated), 06/21/00)
"I took what the Holy Wood screenplay was and made some changes to shape it into a book. It's fiction and it will be out after the album. The type of writers that I model myself on, or am inspired by by, would be William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley and Phillip K Dick. Those people are what I aim to be, but we'll have to wait and see what the book reviewers say. I'm quite happy with it. I think it's very detailed and it takes you to a lot of places. I find it strange that you can understand more about someone from their fiction writing - I think people will learn more about me from this book than in my autobiography. You can be as honest as you want when you're lying." (Kerrang, 08/00)
"The book will be previewed shortly and out after the CD." (Official BBS post, 08/15/00)
"I think when people read this book, they'll see how the songs ended up tying together, because the story is something I really had with me almost seven or eight years ago. And I've been kind of placing it out as I see fit, in a way I think America could handle at what times." (Metal Hammer, 08/00)
"It's a story about someone innocent who is given the apple of knowledge, and has the naivete to think that they could create a revolution and take on the world. What happens is that the revolution becomes just another product. The world just chews it up and spits it back out as something more polished. Then that person finally realizes what he's done. Unfortunately, it's too late, and the only way to destroy that world is to destroy himself, because he created it. As the saying goes, it takes one bullet to kill the whole world because it's all in your head." (Dazed and Confused, 08/00)
"The story that ties the three records together is told in greater detail with specific characters, and the metaphors are made into more dramatic events in my novel Holy Wood that's going to be out in the beginning of the year. I wanted the record to exist on its own, and when you read the book it takes on a new life, but they're not tied down to each other in a very similar self-indulgent way." (Webcast, 09/17/00)
"In my book -- which in my best guess will probably be out in the beginning of next year -- the story is explored very detailed and very graphically, even more so than I would have been able to in a movie, so it turns out that I was much happier making it into a book and an album than a film." (Metal Edge, 10/00)
"It’s very different from [my autobiography]. It’s a traditional fictional novel, kind of in the tradition of the people that inspired me: Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut, people like that. I found, strangely, that people might learn more from my from Holy Wood than they did from my own book, because I tend to project more of my own personality into the characters, I think." (Edge 102, 10/16/00)
"The book was something that started coming into a real form during the three months of writing the lyrics." (Dotmusic, 10/00)
"The irony is that it's a very antiviolent story, but you can't appreciate violence without using it to make your point. It's like, you can't have a virgin explain sex to you." (Newsweek, 11/00)
these ones are from the news section of the official site, and therefore were not said by Marilyn himself:
"Shortly after the album's release this fall, Manson will be publishing the book, Holy Wood, which he began writing in 1995 and was the inspiration for the screenplay and the new album. This graphic and phantasmagoric novel will be the first piece of fiction to accompany a concept album. (This will be Manson's second book; his first, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, was a New York Times Best Seller)." (02/00)
"In regards to the look and feel of the new marilynmanson.net website, the novel's protagonist, Adam Kadmon, plays a crucial role in Manson's body of work. This character is inspired by the alchemical Adam Kadmon, who was thought to be an androgyne much like the one Manson portrayed on the cover of 'MECHANICAL ANIMALS'." (02/00)