Anybody Quote by Colm Toibin

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

— Jennifer Egan

“This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters…

— Fernando Del Paso

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same…

— David Niven

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

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

— Janet Fitch

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

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space…

— Kristy Swanson

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

“I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not “audience.” Not “readership.” Just the reader. That one person, alone in a room,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides