Books Quote by Michael Connelly

I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know what really…

— Nicole Krauss

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed…

— Jessica Park

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

“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is that he…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of…

— Cassandra Clare

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of…

— Paul Dano