Books Quote by Kameron Hurley

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

— John Searles

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

— Gillian Flynn

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler