Megan Chance Quotes

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.