Back in the day Quote by Rhys Darby

Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind…

— Rhys Darby

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

“From my recent blog tour interview: I recently spent time updating my Goodreads page to include the names of authors whose works inspire me,…

— Barbara James

“Your readers do.” His fingers yanked through his thick beard in a combing manner. His eyes were in the corner of the room. “My…

— Love Belvin

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in which everything…

— Andrew Binks

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories…

— Paul Auster

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

— Philip Roth

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through…

— Scott Donaldson