18th century Quote by David Liss

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of…

— Julie Klassen

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical…

— Hilary Mantel

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a…

— Ben Richards

I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to…

— Danielle Dutton

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in…

— Diana Gabaldon

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson