Book Quote by Michael Morpurgo Download Open image “Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.” — Michael Morpurgo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Character Good Good book Key Keys Me Novel
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more vague sense of where things may wind up, but at some point, if the novel is any good at all, the story and characters take on lives of their own and take over the book, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace deep inside… Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
