About Quote by Stephen Mangan

“One aspect of Samantha's personality that drove me nuts was her tendency to reveal herself via literary allusions. She called it a quirk, but…

— John Blumenthal

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character,…

— Caryl Phillips

“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

We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature…

— Harold Bloom

“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader’s…

— Anonymous

“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's…

— Vladimir Nabokov

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form…

— Margaret Mahy

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Books create eras and nations, just as eras and nations create books.

— Anonymous

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami -…

— Sarah Kay