I get letters from adults saying that they love the books…

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

— Gwendoline Christie

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to…

— Alan Moore

But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of…

— Lisa Joy

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out…

— Ryan North

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

— Jim Lee

As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the…

— Stana Katic

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same…

— Peter Jackson

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

— David Berlinski

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the…

— Anna Quindlen

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

— Nicholson Baker

I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

— Eleanor Catton

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do…

— Bret Easton Ellis