Adventure Quote by Michael Dirda

“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily at adolescent…

— Norman Spinrad

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time…

— Juliet Landau

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated…

— Janet Evanovich

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

— Kris Holden-Ried

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

— Emma Healey

You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until…

— Dan Simmons

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

— Sue Grafton

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been…

— Michael Dirda

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay