Books Quote by Claire Wingfield Download Open image ““Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”” — Claire Wingfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Books-for-writers Inspiration Writing
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
“I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because… — M.L. Gardner Copy Share Image
“We are part of someone’s story, not just the main character in our own.” — Zara Hairston Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.” — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
