Book Quote by Mary Wesley

“As a child I harbored a deep interest in geography. I remember that in the library of my house, immersed in my fantasies, my…

— Barbara Athanassiadis

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre writing the…

— David McCullough

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for…

— Tim Cahill

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to…

— Guy Johnson

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I…

— Tom Johnson

“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books and pens…

— Harry M. Caudill

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help…

— Janet Fitch

“The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take us out…

— Annie Barrows

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson