Brian Keene Quotes

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

Brian Keene

Time
Believe

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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

Garrett Dillahunt
- World
- Job
- Perfect
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

J. G. Ballard
- Writing
- Done
- Truth
I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

J. I. Packer
- God
- Process
- Saying
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Taiye Selasi
- Truth
- Myself
- Tell
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Wallace Stevens
- World
- Find
- Difficult
I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

Lake Bell
- Time
- Good
- Together