Long Quote by Lionel Shriver

We Need To Talk About Kevin,' as an adaptation, was pretty major. It's a long book, and it's in letters, so it was a…

— Lynne Ramsay

Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised…

— Lionel Shriver

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to…

— Kevin Abstract

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

— Rose Tremain

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of…

— Nahnatchka Khan

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

— Garry Trudeau

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss any mistakes,…

— Peter Orner