About Quote by Kate Atkinson

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

— Lincoln Child

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's…

— Alain de Botton

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

— Pauline Kael

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

— A. N. Wilson

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson