Book Quote by Jan Karon

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects…

— Chris Crutcher

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

— Tamora Pierce

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Tamora Pierce

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

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

— Rachel Cohn

The dark... Such evil lurks in it, says many people, but the truth lies in it.

— Anonymous

It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through…

— Tracy Pollan

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for…

— David Bezmozgis

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters…

— William J. Mann

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum