Books Quote by Jen Campbell Download Open image ““Customer: Where are your fictional novels?”” — Jen Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they are will… — Kate Walker Copy Share Image
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ” — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.” — Joanne McDonnell Copy Share Image
“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't… — Sanela Ramic Jurich Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.” — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.” — Gurnam Singh Sodhi Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.” — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Hi. BOOKSELLER: Hi there, how can I help? CUSTOMER: Could you please explain Kindle to me. BOOKSELLER: Sure. It’s an e-reader, which means… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes bookselling is the best job in the world, and sometimes it isn’t (as you’ll soon find out). However, one thing is for sure:… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Is your mother around ? BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop. CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry.” — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?' Customer's friend: 'Jesus.” — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a biography to read that’s really interesting. Could you recommend one? BOOKSELLER: Sure. What books have you read and liked?… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: OK, so you want this book? THEIR DAUGHTER: Yes! CUSTOMER: Peter Pan ? THEIR DAUGHTER: Yes, please. Because he can fly. CUSTOMER: Yes,… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“There are many different types of beginnings. And who’s to say we haven’t imagined our lives up to this point? Who’s to say we… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“It makes me sad that grown up books don’t have pictures in them. You’re brought up with them when you’re younger, and then suddenly… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I’d like to buy this audiobook. BOOKSELLER: Great. CUSTOMER: Only, I don’t really like this narrator. BOOKSELLER: Oh. CUSTOMER: Do you have a… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Oh, look, these books are all signed. (Pause) I wonder who signed them ?” — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
