Advantage Quote by Virginia Henley

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

— Jill Ker Conway

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the…

— Hilary Mantel

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from…

— Ashwin Sanghi

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live.…

— John Updike

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to…

— Julius Erving

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these…

— Lily Rabe

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

— Debra Monroe