Books Quote by Anne Tyler

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings…

— Emily Barton

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of…

— Joan Didion

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so…

— Seanan McGuire

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that…

— Naomi Novik

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt