Books Quote by Yiyun Li

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first…

— William Goldman

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

The problem is always hard to get through for the characters in books, whether its facing another's past or accepting their mistakes. But in…

— Chloe Loizeau

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen.…

— Kate DiCamillo

“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice…

— Anonymous

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our…

— Mizuki Nomura