Quotes by : Ben Marcus

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked....

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting....

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people,....

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees....

The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in....

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is....

Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another....

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased,....

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about....