Book Character Quotes

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.