About Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and…

— Zadie Smith

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks