Base Quote by Laurie Holden

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders,…

— Laurie Holden

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some…

— Robert Crais

In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty…

— Madison Smartt Bell

“Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of…

— Rebecca Solnit

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level.…

— Lauren Lapkus

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to…

— Nancy Kress

“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror…

— William J. Abraham

“While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our…

— Julius Lester