Black Quote by Greg Iles

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made…

— Paul Stanley

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

— Laura Lippman

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not…

— George R. R. Martin

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least…

— Ned Beauman

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be…

— Tess Gerritsen

The first book was a life story that I was hesitant to write anyway because I didn't feel like I had a real life…

— Bobby Bones

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