Book Quote by Salman Rushdie

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of…

— Dana Spiotta

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

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

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

— Tahereh Mafi

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

— Robert Forster

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster