Author: Ben Marcus

Quotes

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

- Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

- Ben Marcus

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

- Ben Marcus

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

- Ben Marcus

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

- Ben Marcus

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

- Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

- Ben Marcus

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

- Ben Marcus

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

- Ben Marcus

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