I’ve learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book. Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in ‘The Darkest Minds,’ I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people’s fears. Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
The Darkest Minds’ came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager. Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust? Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy. Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
The powers of the teenagers in ‘The Darkest Minds’ were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it. Alexandra Bracken Read Quote
