Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be... →
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are... →
Alan Furst
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as... →
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an... →
Diana Gabaldon
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in... →
Stephen Gaghan