Book Quote by David Bezmozgis

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

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

— David Bezmozgis

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.

— John Wilson

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story,…

— Dean Koontz

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible…

— Richard Russo

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same…

— Peter Jackson

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait…

— Peter Dinklage

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might…

— Amish Tripathi

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer