Books Quote by Boris Pasternak

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

— Joshua Mohr

“This is the real drama for me; the belief that we all, you see, think of ourselves as one single person: but it's not…

— Luigi Pirandello

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps”

— Karl Marx

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean…

— Boris Pasternak

My take on people and on the characters I play in Transsiberian, the role you're looking for, is that everybody is more than one…

— Emily Mortimer

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan