Atlantic Quote by Terence Winter

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could…

— Shane Carruth

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl…

— Jean Fritz

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story…

— Isabel Allende

I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second World War…

— John Nettles

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the…

— Meg Cabot

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was…

— William S. Burroughs

I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World…

— Barry Keoghan

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly…

— H. W. Brands

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is…

— Natasha Trethewey

I don't read a ton of fiction, but Tom Wolfe's death got me to pick up 'The Bonfire of the Vanities.' I'm a slow…

— Steve Kornacki

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

— George Saunders