Anecdotes Quote by Lauren Weisberger

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled…

— Michael Lewis

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

— Hope Jahren

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best,…

— Julia Glass

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my…

— Emily Giffin

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

— Lincoln Child

As a psychologist, I'm painstakingly careful not to borrow my clients' stories for my fiction - but in a general sense, I'm very much…

— Becky Albertalli

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright