Book Quote by Nicolas Roeg

“Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only…

— Harriet Evans

“By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and without character and plot, no book can survive.”

— Craig Hart

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as…

— Elif Batuman

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

— Chris Harrison

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of…

— Wendy Cope

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's…

— Gillian Flynn

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

“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

“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others…

— Pierre Bayard

“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat…

— Maya Rodale