Books Quote by Don Winslow

“One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than…

— Jessica Andersen

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the…

— Garrison Keillor

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only…

— Kelly Link

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

— Joan Didion

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that…

— Stewart O'Nan

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

— John Gardner

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

— Emma Roberts

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury