Books Quote by Louis Menand

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a…

— George Saunders

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with…

— Ann Beattie

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely…

— Keira Knightley

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved.…

— Henry Cavill

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on…

— Ashish Sharma

For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To…

— Richard Shepard