Books Quote by Juliet Marillier

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to…

— Nathan Englander

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

— Francis Ray

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

— Chris Pavone

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

“I get most of my inspiration from two places: my own life, and reading. I read widely—in my genre (romance), and in all sorts…

— Eloisa James

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story…

— Joan D. Vinge