Book Quote by James Frey Download Open image “All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.” — James Frey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are. — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
“It is a touching story, and it is written more to convince than to tell. I am not convinced.” — James Frey Copy Share Image
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place.… — James Frey Copy Share Image
He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have it, they… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I start to cry. Tears begin running down my face and quiet sobs escape me. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. — James Frey Copy Share Image
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial… — James Frey Copy Share Image
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it… — James Frey Copy Share Image
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
