Aspect Quote by J. K. Rowling

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know…

— Anne Rice

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

— Richard Ford

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes…

— John C. Maxwell

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what…

— Jesmyn Ward

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Chris Pavone

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende