Aks Novel Quotes

Gunfire doesn’t startle real Texans, particularly those from rural towns. Miranda’s children mastered pistols, shotguns, and rifles like magicians master top hats, rabbits, and playing cards. Texas bravado aside, however, fully automatic gunfire wasn’t kosher. Not even close. Mirandites cowered at the ominous sounds of hoodlums firing M-16s and AK-47s from train cars barreling through the town’s arteries on largely secluded tracks. 

We all obsess over our novel’s first lines, and rightly so because from it the rest of the story must flow naturally and without pause.

Congratulations Tomi Adeyemi on your breakout novel CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. A project catching fire, such as this one has, is the hope (not a guarantee) of every storyteller. Hemingway said it best, 'It is the journey that matters, in the end.

Wholly reminiscent of Rod Serling’s 1959—1964 series the Twilight Zone or The Mercury Theatre’s October 30, 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. And let us not forget the X-Files.

I’m what my family calls a vegetarian vampire.” Saint crushes the can in his grasp. I despair at the sight. I may not have my paints, but I could’ve made a tin sculpture with that thing. My fingers are craving art like my stomach craves my dad’s cooking. It’s an ache I can’t ignore. “Sounds like you jumped out of a Twilight novel.