Always Quote by Salman Rushdie

Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

— Anatoly Rybakov

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history…

— Frederick Busch

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I…

— Richard Rodriguez

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that…

— David Brin

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of…

— Eddie Huang

I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence,…

— Martine Syms