“I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first ...” — Blake Crouch Quote

“I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.”

“I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Harris, and Pat Conroy.”

“I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be.”

“My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.”

“The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.”

“So even though 'Sanditon' was filmed in Gloucestershire on the coast, which was gorgeous, it meant I could finish work, get home, and do a few bedtime stories.”