The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

Brent Weeks (via hisa-ai)

And you would be horribly horribly mistaken sir. Week's world is built around the fact that female drafters are, on the whole, superior to male drafters.

I just started The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, and already, one chapter in, I feel like this is going to be a manly man’s tale for manly men, for and about men, and that female contributions are going to be scarce and/or Sci-Fan Sex Kitten edition. 

If you can’t love him for the man he is, - if you only love him for the man you think he could be, - you’ll only cripple him.

(via beautificious)

What I’m doing at the moment eh goal for tonight to not play any video games till 11pm challenge accepted

The only interaction between my ship in The Search

The only interaction between my ship in The Search

I believe that the Ninja Kitty series will also be a great way to introduce young children to my work, so that by the time they’re 10 or 11, they’ll be ready to be introduced to the themes of cannibalism, prostitution, and murder that are so central to the Night Angel books. In addition, kitties give me a great way to tie my work to existing memes.

I’ve answered some questions about the book below:

Why did you decide to write a children’s book?

Well, six books, and that’s just to start. 1) Children’s books are easy. 2) Have you seen the crap parents will buy for their kids? Why not get in on that? 3) Market synergies. I’m not going to leave a dollar on the table.

What’s it been like to write in an entirely new genre?

Easy, and my assistant fixes all the minor details, like when I forget the kitties names and or the plot. I find I can write one of these in a couple days, max.

More reasons why I am in the Brent Weeks fandom

For those who’ve ever had doubts about watching Whose Line

Dancing

Everyone else

How my family thinks I dance

How I dance

I miss 90s humor guys

HEAD CANON REINFORCED

Oh my god toph

Then all the feels came rushin’ back.

The black ka’kari might be one of my favorite characters lmao who would expect sass from a black glob??

Getting unrationally angry at your mother for taking you to a bookshop three years ago where you bought Brent Weeks’ The Black Prism on a whim and your life seemingly downward spiraled from there.