Amount Quote by Megan Chance

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real…

— Megan Chance

In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French…

— Megan Chance

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about…

— Ben Aaronovitch

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the…

— Megan Chance

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and…

— Sharon Lawrence

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to…

— Sasa Stanisic

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

— David McCullough

After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the…

— Charles R. Morris

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go…

— Penelope Lively

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey