Blake Crouch

“We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft.”

“In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were all hugely supportive at moments during my development as a writer that were critical, where I might have quit when things got too hard.”

“The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.”

“I love to hike, fly-fish, and ski in the mountains where I live in Colorado.”

“It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.”

“Writing and producing television very much speaks to the extroverted part of my personality. I love collaboration, the joint effort of hundreds of people working together to create something. But the other part of who I am is extremely introverted. I love being alone and dreaming up ideas and writing novels.”

“I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.”

“The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.”