Book Quote by Ben Marcus

STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

— Rachel Cohn

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

— Andre Maurois

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.

— George Ratliff

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved…

— Douglas Brunt

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow,…

— Norman Mailer

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art…

— James Franco

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I…

— Anonymous

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that…

— Kameron Hurley

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl