Books Quote by Emma Healey

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and…

— Zadie Smith

Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to…

— Marilynne Robinson

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of…

— John Green

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume