About Quote by Kim Edwards

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm…

— Kim Edwards

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

— Dee Rees

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's…

— Nicholas Sparks

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding…

— Sean Bean

The characters I like offer a room for imagination about their untold past and future, even when the given scripts don't explain enough about…

— Lee Je-hoon

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death…

— Rose Tremain

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and…

— Geraldine Brooks

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende