I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college. — Chloe Benjamin Ballet Copy Share Image
“Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and… — Chloe Benjamin Bridge Copy Share Image
We forget that most questions in this world - the ones that really matter - are impossible to answer completely. — Chloe Benjamin Answer Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which… — Chloe Benjamin Absurd Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Amazing Copy Share Image
“But this is how it is with most of the men in the Castro – men suspended in time as if in… — Chloe Benjamin Castro Copy Share Image
I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while… — Chloe Benjamin Fun Copy Share Image
I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties. — Chloe Benjamin Adventure Copy Share Image
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain. — Chloe Benjamin Absurd Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun,… — Chloe Benjamin Living room Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Knowledge Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having… — Chloe Benjamin Conversation Copy Share Image
“Simon still feels high, remembering how it felt to dance with those beautiful, sculpted men, how it felt to be adored. For… — Chloe Benjamin Adored Copy Share Image
“So, this is how it started: as a secret, a challenge, a fire escape they used to dodge the hulking mass of… — Chloe Benjamin Bunk Copy Share Image
“Vaginas have never appealed to him: their cabbage-like folds, their long, hidden corridor. He craves the long thrust of the cock, its… — Chloe Benjamin Cock Copy Share Image
I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers -… — Chloe Benjamin Dream Copy Share Image
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual… — Chloe Benjamin Atheist Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an… — Chloe Benjamin Pleasure Copy Share Image
“So you’ve been through tragedy. No one’s denying it. But that is not the life you’re living now. The aura is stale.… — Chloe Benjamin Life Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t just about defying death,’ Raj says, his voice coming through the speakers on either side of the television. ‘It’s also… — Chloe Benjamin Comic Copy Share Image
“You’re just like the rest of them,’ he says, ‘all the twinks and the art fags and the motherfucking bears. You guys,… — Chloe Benjamin Art Copy Share Image
“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone's ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but… — Chloe Benjamin Magic Copy Share Image
“In New York, he would live for them, but in San Francisco, he could live for himself. And though he does not… — Chloe Benjamin Life Copy Share Image
None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit… — Chloe Benjamin Death Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Books Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form… — Chloe Benjamin Brain Copy Share Image
“He’s classy ,’ said Klara, the first time she met him, and Simon beamed with pride. But this is also part of… — Chloe Benjamin Depravity Copy Share Image
“He wants their sexuality to be an equalizer; he wants to focus on the discrimination they face in common. But Simon can… — Chloe Benjamin Black Copy Share Image
“He believes in bad choices; he believes in bad luck. And yet the memory of the woman on Hester Street is like… — Chloe Benjamin Bad choices Copy Share Image
I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge… — Chloe Benjamin Doubt Copy Share Image
“And what if I change?" "Then you'd be special. 'Cause most people don't.” — Chloe Benjamin Change Copy Share Image
You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context. — Chloe Benjamin Bad Copy Share Image
Teaching was an incredible experience, and I miss it a lot, but I also love the job I have now. — Chloe Benjamin Education Copy Share Image
“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory – to know that she connects a future unknowable… — Chloe Benjamin Children Copy Share Image
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune… — Chloe Benjamin Better Copy Share Image
