Books Quote by Margaret Atwood

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

— Ian Mcewan

Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage…

— Jeff Zucker

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

— Penelope Lively

In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim…

— Annalee Newitz

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the…

— Ann Patchett

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that…

— Alan Weisman

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson