Book Quote by Jean Genet

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

— Gabriel Ba

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes,…

— James Dashner

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and…

— Emma Healey

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

— Sophie Kinsella

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

— Jesse Ball