Lauren Willig Quotes

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

No work of history can ever escape its own time...we are all influenced by what we read and what we experience.

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to be for them. I find it infuriating.There's a lot more going on in my books than just romance.

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.