I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
“He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.” — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
