Books Quote by Percival Everett

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

— Jerry Spinelli

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not…

— George R. R. Martin

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery…

— Anne Tyler

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

— Steven Amsterdam

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

— Alison Lurie

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know…

— Josh Holloway

Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This…

— Judy Blundell

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat