Darkness Quote by Leigh Bardugo

Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

— Karin Slaughter

As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

— Karin Slaughter

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

— Natalie Dormer

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive…

— George A. Romero

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see…

— Julianna Baggott

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“Horror is best written in the dark.”

— Dennis McDonald

“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about…

— Wayne Allen Sallee

“Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again…

— Heena Rathore P

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

— Frankie Shaw