About Quote by Malala Yousafzai

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close…

— Katherine Center

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

— Lincoln Child

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.

— Julie Ann Emery

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.…

— Alan Lightman

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.

— Paul Dano

I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile…

— Bennett Miller

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the…

— David S. Goyer

In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two…

— Doug Liman