Arrive Quote by Sophie Hannah

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go,…

— Eleanor Catton

Since 'Mononoke' has such a dramatic story, I played up the drama, emphasizing the power of a magnum opus.

— Joe Hisaishi

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at…

— Liza Campbell

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.

— Arlo Parks

“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

When you finish reading a script and you realise that you didn't think of anything else, that you were just focusing on the script…

— Louis Hofmann

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least…

— Ned Beauman

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about…

— Ralph Fiennes