Ted Dekker
Related In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - ... GAYLE LYNDS JOHN IRVING A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that th... LAURA ANNE GILMAN CANDACE BUSHNELL BRUCE COVILLE I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thril... BRUNO TONIOLI NANCY WERLIN MOHSIN HAMID I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're abso... SANDRA BROWN Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I... PAMELA SARGENT NICHOLAS SPARKS With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w... IRVIN D. YALOM NICHOLAS SPARKS KATE MOSSE CAROLINE B. COONEY I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to... NATSUO KIRINO CECELIA AHERN I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they'... LISA SCOTTOLINE Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerd... BILLY CAMPBELL LAUREN CONRAD More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, ... CATHERINE LOWELL EMMA WATSON I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a... DANA SPIOTTA People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. RICK KAPLAN Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN RICK RIORDAN I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta... PATRICK WHITE I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals... ERNEST J. GAINES ROBERT GALBRAITH SUSAN WIGGS I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a fi... TONY BRADMAN MORDECAI RICHLER KIRSTEN DUNST JOHN IRVING DONNA TARTT I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brot... JANE LINDSKOLD RAND PAUL My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ... GENE HACKMAN TAMORA PIERCE TESS GERRITSEN When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many yea... GRACE LIN I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore. CAROLYN SEE I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and ... EDAN LEPUCKI SARAH WATERS I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age ... ALEXEI SAYLE DENIS VILLENEUVE TOM STOPPARD My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic l... SCARLETT THOMAS LAURA MARLING We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ DAVID BENIOFF Leslie Kelly was one of our first to be published and now has more than 20 novels to her credit. SHARON CALVIN MR. T Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo... PAMELA DEAN I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth... EVAN HUNTER When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us... DAN GILROY EDMUND WHITE I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the ... PATRICK WHITE CARL HIAASEN Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England an... BEVERLY CLEARY HARRY DEAN STANTON When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantia... RUTH OZEKI CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI CAROLINE B. COONEY KAGE BAKER SHELBY FOOTE STEPHENIE MEYER I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravi... DAVID SHIELDS JASPER FFORDE AMOS OZ CHARLAINE HARRIS MARIO VARGAS LLOSA MICHAEL BOND MATTHEW VAUGHN DAVID DUCHOVNY AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing... DAVID GALLAGHER Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' nov... CARRIE VAUGHN JONATHAN MABERRY I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER BECKY G LYDIA MILLET CLAIRE TOMALIN My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 1... AARON JOHNSON RYAN TEDDER MIKE BIRBIGLIA As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo... SINEAD O'CONNOR CHARLIE SHEEN DONATELLA VERSACE In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie... DAVID SHIELDS I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers. OLIVIER MEGATON I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. EVAN HUNTER I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before ... PHILIPP MEYER SONAM KAPOOR I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi... CHRISTOPHER KOCH I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would li... LUCY HAWKING PAUL AUSTER I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be cl... GEOFF DYER Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. BARBARA PARK I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it. JACKEE HARRY
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my ima... 
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. 
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... 
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ... 
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I int... 
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. 
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. 
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. 
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more... 
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. 
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think wh... 
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my ot... 
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer wr... 
I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because... 
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw... 
I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. 
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination... 
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many ... 
My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating pro... 
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out... 
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since... 
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. 
I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way... 
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... 
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of question... 
Fiction novels, that's my game. 
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... 
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously... 
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I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the... 
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone thro... 
I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine. 
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. ... 
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... 
All of my novels are democracies. 
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. 
Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels... 
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In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person. 
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Honest labor bears a lovely face. 
Were there no women, men might live like gods. 
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. 
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo. 
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