Believe Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

— Fiona Barton

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the…

— Margaret Atwood

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat