Books Quote by Rita Mae Brown

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

— Jan Karon

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand…

— Stephen King

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting…

— Miguel Serrano

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

— Marian Keyes

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert