Books Quote by Mark Pryor

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

“If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first place.”

— Graham Parke

“Haven’t you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you’ve made based on appearance.”

— S.J.D. Peterson

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

“My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel.”

— Ian McEwan

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”

— Alistair Cross

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta

“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing to do…

— Mark Manson

“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ”

— Andrea K. Höst