Books Quote by John Darnielle

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters…

— Alice Hoffman

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start…

— Rebecca West

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of…

— Joshua Jackson

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are…

— Victor Null

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

Dreams are the illusions in the book your soul is writing about you.

— Anonymous

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers…

— Ally Carter