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He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged. — Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks

As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters. — Erin Blakemore

I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same. — Kristine Scarrow

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. — Nicholas Sparks

My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me. — Gabrielle Dubois

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled. — Shannon L. Alder

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. — Claudia Bakker

Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels ... — Virginia Woolf

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change. — Maria Semple

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. — Alexei Sayle

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler

When I create characters for the world of others I realize how much I have yet to experience. — Teresa LaBella

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself. — Frederick Wiseman

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art. — Sonia Sanchez

By the hairy ass of lord hell. Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels — Katharine Kerr

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles. — Maya Rodale

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect. — Shannon L. Alder

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom. — Marie Brennan

You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly ... — John Geddes

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. — Jane Campion

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. — Emma Donoghue

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde

I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary. — Nicole Gulla

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. — Ian McEwan

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. — Ellen Potter