Books Quote by Dani Shapiro

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters,…

— Anne Rice

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always…

— Colson Whitehead

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.

— Lauren Barnholdt

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.

— Paul G. Tremblay

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute…

— Alexandra Adornetto

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster