I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good…

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good…

— Randy Quaid

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I…

— Michael Pollan

There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

— Joan Leslie

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

— Ludivine Sagnier

There are good characters and bad characters.

— Matt Stone

“Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.”

— Evangeline Walton

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is…

— Primo Levi

People with good intensions make promises but people with good characters keep them .

— Ritu Ghatourey

When it comes to writing characters, whether men or women, I think a good writer writes good characters. I know many men who, for…

— Zoya Akhtar

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

— Shannon Hale