Books Quote by Frank Peretti

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

— Rachel Cohn

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

— David Small

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do…

— Nicholas Sparks

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

— Rita Mae Brown

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write…

— Hannah Kent

“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence”

— Marcel Proust

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

— Alberto Manguel

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

— Neil Gaiman

I think I was always meant to write dark stories.

— Marie Lu