The Lord of the Rings,’ obviously, had a huge, huge impact on me. I read a lot of ‘Hardy Boys,’ also. I liked the equation, that it was always the same but a little bit different. There’s something comforting about those books. Blake Crouch Read Quote
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime. Blake Crouch Read Quote
In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer… My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were all hugely supportive at moments during my development as a writer that were critical, where I might have quit when things got too hard. Blake Crouch Read Quote
I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Harris, and Pat Conroy. Blake Crouch Read Quote
I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be. Blake Crouch Read Quote
I always find out after the fact that the books I’ve been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete. Blake Crouch Read Quote
Writing and producing television very much speaks to the extroverted part of my personality. I love collaboration, the joint effort of hundreds of people working together to create something. But the other part of who I am is extremely introverted. I love being alone and dreaming up ideas and writing novels. Blake Crouch Read Quote
The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What stories should they be telling? What does writing mean to them? I didn’t know the answers to those questions for a long, long time. Blake Crouch Read Quote
