I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago:… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times;… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous,… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I’ll never think of those places the same way… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Few men ever wonder such things. They are the center of the world, after all. But women are not so different in what they… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image