Byron Quote by Karen Maitland

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

— Karen Maitland

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness…

— Jenny Diski

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him…

— Aldous Huxley

I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character,…

— Kate Leth

Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway. I…

— Anonymous

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

— Margaret Atwood

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as in all…

— Edward Whittemore

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

— Christopher Nolan

I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.

— Linda Lael Miller

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

— Alison Weir