About Quote by Cassandra Clare

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

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

— David Bezmozgis

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who…

— Daniel Goldin

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous,…

— John Banville

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make…

— Karin Slaughter

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the…

— Natasha Rothwell

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to…

— Joe Meno