Books Quote by Javier Marías

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

“If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found that--just as…

— Steve Martin

“The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration…

— Gulzar

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they…

— Sara Sheridan

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

“When a plot won't move forward, it's almost always because there's something I don't know about the characters or the world or why this…

— Rachel Aaron

“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally,…

— Anthony Horowitz

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

“It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see" --he cleared his throat-- "the parts around the edges. You…

— Sarah Blake