About Quote by Luanne Rice

Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will…

— Ellen Hopkins

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler

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

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

— Lincoln Child

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really…

— Megan Chance

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

— Isabel Allende

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

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

— Enrique Pena Nieto