Convinced Quote by Anonymous

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

— Kenzaburo Oe

“At least I could relate to Rose’s sense of adventure and Harriet Jones’ wacky determination and ingrained sense of responsibility. I can stomach the…

— Chila Woychik

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering…

— Laura Hillenbrand

In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would…

— Megan Chance

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

— Scott Westerfeld

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

“What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in”

— Jonathan Franzen

“Teresa had taken vertical dive into the very essence of not just discomfort but pain in its rawest form. - Stainless Steel book 3…

— Carol James Marshall

“there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity;…

— Dean Koontz

With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

— Lesley Sharp