Books Quote by Varian Krylov

“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others…

— John Green

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta

“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

“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t…

— Norman Mailer

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.”

— Mark Pryor

“I get absolutely and undeniably attached to book characters to the point where I cry and laugh with them, and physically miss them when…

— Boodfessions #207

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering