Books Quote by Julius Lester

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where…

— Irène Némirovsky

“The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from…

— Thomas Gately Briody

“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious,…

— Emilie Wapnick

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“this was a book about working out who you were. About identity, constant and threatened.”

— Lewis Carroll

When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.” —TESS LYNCH, WRITER, GENTLEWOMAN, AND ESSAYIST”

— Pam Grout

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

“The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how people's actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are…

— Amazon Books Editors

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner