Books Quote by Ayn Rand

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely…

— Carol Windley

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have…

— Haruki Murakami

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted…

— Martin Donovan

“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel about the…

— Alice McDermott

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

— Curtis Hanson

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did…

— Charles de Lint

I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the…

— Gillian Flynn

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers