Beth Gutcheon Quotes & Sayings

“I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.”

“I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.”

“I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.”

“If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.”

“I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.”