Book Quote by Joan Didion

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some sense. I…

— Marilynne Robinson

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for…

— Sarah MacLean

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on.…

— Jude Deveraux

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just…

— Sissy Spacek

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night…

— Anatole Broyard