Bigs Quote by Emma Donoghue

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly…

— Gina Rinehart

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every…

— Florence Pugh

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her…

— Jason Lutes

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring…

— C. J. Box

I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I…

— Peter Orner

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from…

— Yoko Ono

“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