Behinds Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino

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

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

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

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They…

— Julian Barnes

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

— Philip Hensher

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke