Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes…

— Molly Antopol

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

— Augusten Burroughs

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like…

— David Salle

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

— Paul Auster

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

— Nicole Holofcener

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best,…

— Julia Glass