Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with The Blinding Knife in its first month, September 2012. Read full biography of Brent Weeks →
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's... →
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of... →
Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and... →
My writing has a lot of surprising twists.
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write... →
I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it... →
'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words... →
Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with The Blinding Knife in its first month, September 2012.