Books Quote by Thomas McCormack

“For the writer, the risks are quite palpable and enduring. With each new character, each new setting, and each new plotline, something dark from…

— J.F. Juzwik

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

“They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a…

— Ian Caldwell

“Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very…

— Jane Austen

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King