Top 13 Chloe Benjamin Quotes

My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It’s simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I’m also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit frightened of it.

I wish I’d had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station.

I’ve always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it’s true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

I’ve always been fascinated by dreams – they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain’s obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.

It’s an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties.

Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can’t overstate how how precious that feels – it’s as though you’re having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.

You can’t have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.

Magic is still a very white-male-dominated field.