Bible Quote by Jamie Campbell Bower

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

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

— Michael Morpurgo

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

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

— Diana Gabaldon

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett