Books Quote by Richard Russo

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.” Such is…

— Jane Austen

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Thane Rosenbaum

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid…

— Becky Albertalli

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's…

— Frank Peretti

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role.…

— Cicely Tyson

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic…

— Henry Miller