Books Quote by Sarah Hall

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least…

— Ned Beauman

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell