“Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.” WritingBookNovelGrowing UpGrowingHorrorInspiredComicComic BookDevouring Author:Colson Whitehead
“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.” WorldWritingTryingHeartEnoughCharacterEyeJoySongGirlForceVoiceWonderNovelGrowing UpGrowingDoorsMysteryFashionDangerUniqueShiningCastsTerrorPursueCuresAwfulMemorableFarmsSurprisingLightningUnseenThrillingIrresistibleNoticingCountrysideOutrunWonder Of LifeUnseen ForcesMemorable CharactersGail Author:Jack Hodgins
“My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.” StoriesDreamReadingNovelGrowing UpGrowingTalesFairyFairy Tale Author:Irena A. Hoffman
“Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.” PeopleAcceptingBoysNovelGrowing UpGrowingAdventureComplimentRidersVictorianHaggard Author:Walter Smith
“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.” ThinkingWayYearsTwoStoriesMightAmericaYoungSocialPoorNovelGrowing UpGrowingCenturyTypeHistoricalLike MeNeighborhoodYoung Women20th CenturyUpbringingNaplesPoor Neighborhoods Author:Ann Goldstein
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.” WritingFirstsWellsArtRealityYoungNovelGrowing UpGrowingCollegeIndiaFilledTrippy Author:Karan Bajaj