I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me. Rick Yancey More Quotes by Rick Yancey More Quotes From Rick Yancey There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend. Rick Yancey scary monday book Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. Rick Yancey assumption poison enemy Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead. Rick Yancey gone home mean Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife. Rick Yancey butchers knives drs Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was. Rick Yancey husband laughing thinking I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. Rick Yancey silence native-american thinking The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us. Rick Yancey attack us like wave One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. Rick Yancey words good you world I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. Rick Yancey loved some try kid I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time. Rick Yancey start me family time Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books. Rick Yancey feel good you success The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading. Rick Yancey you reading together character My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad. Rick Yancey everyone loved i-am book It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me. Rick Yancey down never myself me One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop. Rick Yancey end never practice book I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript? Rick Yancey feel beginning justice time 'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away? Rick Yancey story everything trust believe 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS. Rick Yancey someone never problem trying Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact. Rick Yancey look you baby love When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. Rick Yancey prevails civilizations more primitive
