Ability Quote by Chris Crutcher

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

— Tamora Pierce

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

— Tamora Pierce

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

— Jan Karon

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty…

— Melissa de la Cruz

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind…

— Jay Asher

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware

I'm often drawn to darker subjects. There's a lot of awful stuff in literature - and in life. Every day I read the paper…

— Kate Klise

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want…

— Rick Moody

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I do like to write about dark subjects.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan