Animals Quote by Sara Gruen

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

— Bill Peet

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but…

— John Burnside

It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the…

— Steve Backshall

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

— Sara Gruen

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

— John Burnside

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals…

— Robert Eggers

I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time…

— Derek Tangye

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

— Tea Obreht

I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.

— Michelle Dean

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully