I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I... →
Kate Adie
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now... →
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice... →
Aravind Adiga
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of... →
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
Isabelle Adjani
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.