For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
I have always been a dark writer.
Darkness is full of possibility.
The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.