Award Quote by Kate Atkinson

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

— Bill Nighy

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few…

— Caroline Leavitt

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending…

— Donna Leon

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay…

— David Macaulay

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

— Sara Sheridan

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

— Erik Larson

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I…

— Ben Mezrich

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be…

— Tess Gerritsen

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville