Books Quote by Adam Ross

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The…

— Mark Twain

Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the…

— Charles Baxter

“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in…

— Flannery O'Connor

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment…

— Charles Nodier

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put…

— Chris Claremont

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with…

— Francesca Gregorini

“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons we can…

— Michael Cunningham

There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with these issues…

— Colm Meaney

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it.…

— Drew Goddard

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

— Michael Connelly