184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.