Ben Mezrich Quotes

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

I don't write to a genre.

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

My books have all generated controversy.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

I write what I write.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Mr. Greene. Some parts of your book are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.

I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.

Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.

It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they arise inescapably from one consciousness: the same one that is occupied in all the other activities which make up a life.

I write what I want to write.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.