Always Quote by Rose Tremain

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me.…

— Kim Edwards

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books…

— Simon Rich

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping…

— Bob Shacochis

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore…

— Brian De Palma

In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two…

— Doug Liman

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

— Nalo Hopkinson

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set…

— Brian Stableford

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

— Ken Liu

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and…

— Geraldine Brooks

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

— Jonathan Coe