Black Quote by Ian Rankin

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what…

— Andrew Luck

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

I wear the black for those who never read.

— Johnny Cash

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

— Claire Tomalin

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of…

— Daniel Handler

During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs,…

— Jacques Derrida

Character is a photograph that develops in darkness.

— Anonymous

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

— Yousuf Karsh

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to…

— Y'lan Noel

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of…

— Rumaan Alam