Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake is a young adult novelist.

Quotes

• …I can’t get away from violence and gore. Every fantasy I write will be dark, and disturbing in places. That’s what I like in my fantasy.
  • On the themes in her young adult novels in “Interview with Kendare Blake” in Writers & Artists

• …You might think it’s harder to come up with something from the ground up. And funnily enough, real-life settings seem to have their mystical way of kind of…working out. If you need an alley for something to happen and you’re thinking of a particular place, strangely enough, you usually find it. You usually find something workable that you can do. There’s a little less pressure, I will say, having made up something, versus trying to do justice to the place that actually exists.
  • On choosing settings for her novels in “ON CHARACTERS TAKING THE WHEEL: AN INTERVIEW WITH KENDARE BLAKE” in BookRiot (2016 Sep 8)

• …Knowing the end. Knowing the rest. I like unanswered questions, and I don’t really believe in endings…
  • On writing endings in “Kendare Blake: ‘I Don’t Really Believe in Endings.’” in BookRiot (2017 Sep 19)

• …Short stories still require a similar amount of lead-up time (sometimes they spend several years in my head) but once I sit down to write I finish within a few days, and have never needed to redraft or heavily revise. I love short stories. They are perfect, crystallized moments. Snapshots of life…
  • On short stories in “Interview: Kendare Blake, Author of ‘Five Dark Fates’” in The Nerd Daily (2019 Sep 1)