From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
It's good to explore your darkness.
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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