Books Quote by Jaume Cabre

I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a…

— Kathleen Winter

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would…

— Alice Munro

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers…

— Ally Carter

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

— Norman Mailer