Books Quote by Joe Klein

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of…

— Cassandra Clare

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters…

— A. S. Byatt

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going to shake…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it…

— Carol Burnett

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume