Biology Quote by Carl Sagan

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

— Juliet Marillier

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

— Doris Lessing

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into…

— Ken Ham

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

— Hilary Duff

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me...…

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our…

— Joe Quirk

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in…

— Susan Sontag

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to…

— Susan Cain

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding…

— Frances Arnold