Books Quote by Howard Jacobson

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in…

— James Alexander Thom

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

— Roland Barthes

“I... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting…

— Yvonne Woon

“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand how depressing…

— Yeng Pway Ngon

Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee.

— Jackie Coogan

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a…

— Fannie Flagg

“Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most brilliantly drawn…

— Thomas Hardy

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in…

— Sōseki Natsume

“This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good…

— Philip K. Dick

“There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile to the…

— Henry James