Books Quote by Norman Mailer

“Sometimes, I feel like I connect more deeply with the characters in novels than with people I meet in real life. Maybe because in…

— Varian Krylov

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

— Nick Petrie

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia…

— Jerome Stern

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

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

“ Whoever looks for the writer’s thinking in the words and thoughts of his characters is looking in the wrong direction. Seeking out a…

— Philip Roth

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

— Peter De Vries

“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.”

— Andrew Shaffer

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them.…

— Eudora Welty

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna