Author: Alexandra Bracken

Quotes

I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

- Alexandra Bracken

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.

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

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.

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

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

- Alexandra Bracken

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

- Alexandra Bracken

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

- Alexandra Bracken

I think history is just so cyclical.

I think history is just so cyclical.

- Alexandra Bracken

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?

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

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