Books Quote by Sōseki Natsume

“But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and…

— Orhan Pamuk

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for…

— Gaia B. Amman

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor…

— Milan Kundera

“This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters…

— Fernando Del Paso

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know…

— Pierre Bayard

“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.”

— Gita Mehta

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence