Book Quote by Jesmyn Ward

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut…

— Larry Winget

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker