Book Quote by Danielle Dutton

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research…

— Deborah Harkness

Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character…

— Danielle Dutton

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little…

— Jean M. Auel

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided…

— David Liss

My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women were being…

— Caroline Lucas

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country.…

— Rod Lurie

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories…

— Judith Viorst

“At the end of each day, Elizabeth read to me. She had shelves and shelves of children's classics, dusty hardcovers with stamped gold titles:…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

— Bill Blass

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

— Kate Adie

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things…

— Jami Attenberg