Book Quote by George R. R. Martin

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally,…

— Jeffery Deaver

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like…

— James Patterson

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson