Always Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether…

— Elizabeth Wein

In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my…

— Russell Freedman

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem…

— Sarah MacLean

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just more characters,…

— Ellie Bamber

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

— Jessica Jung

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

— Chris Pavone

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a…

— Marie Bradby

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to…

— Iain Banks