Backgrounds Quote by Paulo Coelho

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there,…

— Joanna Trollope

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else…

— Colson Whitehead

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about…

— Nick Hornby

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that…

— Lee Smith

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what it takes…

— David Sedaris

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their…

— Louise Erdrich

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read…

— Andy Weir

Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of…

— Laura Wade

It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce…

— Sarnath Banerjee