Books Quote by John Green

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important…

— Lawrence Osborne

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience…

— Michael Pollan

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

— Nicholas Sparks

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn…

— Susan Wiggs

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in…

— Amos Oz