Apocalypse Quote by Madison Smartt Bell

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief…

— Erik Larson

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance…

— Michael Silverblatt

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

“It is a strange fact that many people are always at home to the “blues.” Whenever a fit visits them, it seems to be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours…

— John Franklin Bardin

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the set of…

— Frank Kermode

“,Coloring is not just art—it's therapy for the soul. Escape into a world of nature, where every stroke brings peace, and every shade tells…

— James Butcher

“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

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness…

— Jenny Diski

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

— Claude Monet

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for…

— Jack Kerouac