Books Quote by Marge Piercy

I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued…

— Jane Rule

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior…

— Terry Marselle

It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In…

— Michelle Gomez

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

— Charles Barkley