Books Quote by Jane Pek

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”

— Claire Wingfield

“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because…

— M.L. Gardner

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”

— Mike Bove

“Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.”

— Roberto Bolaño