Books Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find…

— G.K. Chesterton

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

— Manuel Puig

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books…

— Samuel Johnson

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects;…

— Samuel Johnson

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

— Chris Pine