Books Quote by Geraldine Brooks

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

— Marya Hornbacher

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

— Maureen Corrigan

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

— Paul Dini

I think the definition of a book is changing.

— Jeff Bezos

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

Books are a time machine.

— Jonathan Nolan

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

— Geraldine McEwan

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally…

— Marcus Mumford

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake