Alive Quote by Becky Albertalli

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I'm mostly interested in characters and how they manifest themselves in their relationships. I'm delighted that people relate to the characters in 'Bojack,' and…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she…

— Hilary Mantel

I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full of interesting…

— Randi Zuckerberg

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a…

— Khaled Hosseini

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best,…

— Julia Glass

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

— Roald Dahl

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally…

— Lucy Fry