Book covers Quote by Orhan Pamuk

“Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.”

— Ben Abix

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

— Douglas Sirk

“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most…

— Alain de Botton

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make…

— George Perez

“No one wants the complete picture, the whole story. It would leave no room for the fictions we need to tell ourselves about ourselves.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera

“You can always tell the quality of an author by their cover picture. Bad writers bear an idiotic smile on the inside flap. Great…

— Bauvard

“This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters…

— Fernando Del Paso

“Movie or no, you should never put pictures of the book’s characters on the cover. That only cramps the reader’s fantasy. You force him…

— Herman Koch

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen…

— Ian Rankin

“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

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson