Books Quote by Thomas Perry

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

— Stephen King

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

— Jami Attenberg

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial…

— Julia Glass

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just more characters,…

— Ellie Bamber

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

— Ben Katchor

The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential…

— Michael Boatman