Back Quote by Anthony Burgess

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

— Sylvia Plath

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

— Peter Ackroyd

The country life near Manchester I really love.

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a…

— Zadie Smith

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

— Mo Yan

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the…

— Theresa Breslin

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write…

— Steven Heighton

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and…

— Antony Beevor

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson