There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake.… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“A dark shadow leaped from the stairs, his long coat flowing behind him like demon wings, landing in between her and Warrington.… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. With gleaming eyes they toy With turmoil… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image