Historical Prose Literature

🇺🇸Leon Uris

Literature

1924–2003

"A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare."

"'Doesn't worry me,' Jane replied, I'm an accountant."

🇺🇸Tracy Chevalier

Literature

b. 1962

"Dialogue is always tricky. Authenticity is almost impossible, and you always end up sounding too olde worlde. What I do is to strip the words back, so I get the dialogue to sound timeless…"

🇺🇸Sylvia Day

Literature

b. 1973

"You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me."

🇺🇸Sue Monk Kidd

Literature

Feminism

b. 1948

"The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."