Book Quote by Peter Turchi

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by…

— Hannah Kent

“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers reach their…

— James Meek

“The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.”

— J. Alexander Greenwood

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some…

— Kim Edwards

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's…

— Sandra Brown

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is…

— Nancy Werlin

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To…

— Leon Uris

“A series of different questions must be raised when trying to understand a story. A sampling of those questions might be the following: Who…

— Haddon W. Robinson

The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process,…

— Alan Lightman

“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many…

— William Makepeace Thackeray