Books Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The story can be great but the characters make the book”

— R.P. Heinz

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”

— Claire Wingfield

“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb