Atonement Quote by Ian Mcewan

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more…

— Raquel Cepeda

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't…

— Saoirse Ronan

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then…

— Robin Sloan

The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something…

— Burhan Sonmez

“History didn’t greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells…

— Wisława Szymborska

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought…

— Robin Hobb

It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully,…

— Molly Antopol