Books Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

— Cliff Chiang

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is…

— Alice McDermott

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just…

— Asa Butterfield

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and…

— Jacqueline Woodson