“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Don't you get it yet? The minute we decide that one person doesn't matter anymore, they've won."..."Beneath a sky crowded with a billion stars.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How do I… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“That's my big problem. That's it! Before the Arrival,guys like Evan Walker never looked twice at me, much less shot wild game for me… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“All things do happen for a reason... . Is this not the foundation of our faith? You are here-all of us-because we are but… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. "The bloody… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
