I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
There’s good money in true crime, I’m told, and plenty of it lying around, but it’s a devil of an art form. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
I’m compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
Because I’ve lived a risky and unconventional life, I don’t often struggle for subjects to write about. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere’ took me six years to write. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time. Poe Ballantine Read Quote
